Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0

Post by llimos » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:13 PM UTC

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I find the comments in this article very accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149 > ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software. > Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely. > They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem. > ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a…

Just curious, so which companies do people consider are creating/selling interesting and innovative ENTERPRISE software?

Post by Tostino » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

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In semantic versioning parlance those would all be considered "patch" releases, not a "minor" release. The minor version segment in a semantic version is the 2nd number, so most people would consider the next "minor release" for MySQL to be 8.1.0. If following the guidance set out at https://semver.org , a patch release wouldn't add any new functionality, it would just address bugs in a backwards compatible way. A mi…

MySQL does not follow semantic version and there have been features introduced in minor released including some incompatible changes as you can see for example https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-24....

Post by evanelias » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

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There have been several minor releases in the past 3 years: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/

In semantic versioning parlance those would all be considered "patch" releases, not a "minor" release. The minor version segment in a semantic version is the 2nd number, so most people would consider the next "minor release" for MySQL to be 8.1.0. If following the guidance set out at https://semver.org , a patch release wouldn't add any new functionality, it would just address bugs in a backwards compatible way. A mi…

Post by takeda » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

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That was the expectation but the Oracle camp surprised everyone by actually giving it some attention, and meanwhile MariaDB's promise of being a "100% compatible drop-in replacement" came with more and more caveats with each release (as is to be entirely expected with any fork). When you consider the network effect of all the stacks already heavily invested in MySQL, all Oracle really needed to do was put in a modicu…

Anyone on the in-crowd who can share a bit about Oracle's motivations here? I recall a Bryan Cantrill talk about how Oracle is this completely amoral machine that just wants to make money, and how that drives their every decision [0]. Is this no longer the case? Or is it, and if so, how does improving MySQL and giving it away for free making Oracle money? Or was it always hyperbole and Oracle is improving MySQL becau…

Post by mackman » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 8:27 PM UTC