Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> > Couldn't it be like, say, QuickSort? Nobody has to get permission to
> > do a QuickSort. Would one need to be worried about patents if one were
> > to implement a database with a locking mechanism?

> I'm not an attorney. I've heard Oracle acquired the patents. Have they
> expired? Perhaps. Perhaps Oracle filed for extensions: I don't know.

Patents for MVCC? That would indeed suprise me.  

> From what I've seen of SQL Server 2005 Microsoft's methodology is not a
> clone ... as they appear to eat massive amounts of CPU to do what Oracle
> does with grace and ease.

Or that Interbase/Firebird does on vastly less amounts of CPU than Oracle does?

Paul...

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