tl;dr<p><pre><code> > [Google] has sent an [unnamed] engineer to the MariaDB
> Foundation... Asked [what they get], Google declined to
> comment.</code></pre>
Hopefully MariaDB can incorporate SQL window functions:<p><a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-window.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-window.ht...</a><p>These have been part of PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc for quite a while and still absent from MariaDB/MySQL.
Can somebodody comment on this?<p><pre><code> > I'd have added one thing to the licence: that this
> licence is GPL but after three years it reverts to BSD,
> then Oracle wouldn’t have bought Sun because we’d be free
> within three years and MySQL would be BSD and nobody
> could take that away
</code></pre>
What is the problem with the GPL in this case? That changes / additions must be given to Oracle?
Maybe they can fix MariaDB to use something other than ucontext (which is no longer part of POSIX) or i386/x86-64 only asssembly for co-routines.<p>But they probably won't since this is Google, and it "works just fine on Linux"
It looks like MariaDB is getting some good run lately. I just installed Fedora 19 on one of my older boxes and they decided to have MariaDB as the default DB.