Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

From: <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 10 Oct 2005 11:49:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1128970142.477032.35230@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Paul wrote:
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Wouldn't be surprised. I'm waiting for Microsoft to release SQL Server
> > 2005 and its blatant attempt to imitate Oracle's multiversion read
> > consistency. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the law suits are already
> > drawn up: They should be!
>
>
> Interbase has used MVCC (Multi Generational Architecture,
> record-versioning, record-shadowing - whatever you want to call it)
> for years and didn't steal it. Apparently, according to Jim Starkey
> the creator of Interbase, he invented MVCC.

http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/archive/2005/02/18/MultiversionConcurrencyControlBeforeInterBase.aspx Received on Mon Oct 10 2005 - 13:49:02 CDT