Josh Berkus at OSCON: Sun, MySQL, PostgreSQL
summary
Claims Sun shifts focus to revenue after acquiring MySQL, leading to departure from its small PostgreSQL team; a GPL-only MySQL fork called Drizzle cuts 100,000 lines of code to return to a leaner engine; PostgreSQL excels at complex queries while MySQL favors simple, high-throughput ones (Postgres handles complex queries, MySQL runs simple queries faster); PostGIS and specialty databases drive most new growth, and normalization remains a logical maintainability choice despite trends toward denormalization for perceived performance.
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- 0:00Josh's departure from Sun
- 1:22The Drizzle fork of MySQL
- 3:03Comparing Drizzle and MySQL
- 4:15PostgreSQL market share
- 5:54Database differentiation
- 8:32The future of databases
- 10:56Normalization and data integrity
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