Google supports MariaDB

tl;dr<p><pre><code> &gt; [Google] has sent an [unnamed] engineer to the MariaDB &gt; Foundation... Asked [what they get], Google declined to &gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.1&#x2F;static&#x2F;tutorial-window.ht...</a><p>These have been part of PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc for quite a while and still absent from MariaDB&#x2F;MySQL.

I would rather be more happy to see them support Postgresql, especially in app engine.

Can somebodody comment on this?<p><pre><code> &gt; I&#x27;d have added one thing to the licence: that this &gt; licence is GPL but after three years it reverts to BSD, &gt; then Oracle wouldn’t have bought Sun because we’d be free &gt; within three years and MySQL would be BSD and nobody &gt; could take that away </code></pre> What is the problem with the GPL in this case? That changes &#x2F; additions must be given to Oracle?

Wonder when will GoSQL appear from Google?

Another possibly relevant fact in this matter is that the Android&#x2F;Java lawsuit certainly didn&#x27;t help the Oracle&#x2F;Google relationship...

Maybe they can fix MariaDB to use something other than ucontext (which is no longer part of POSIX) or i386&#x2F;x86-64 only asssembly for co-routines.<p>But they probably won&#x27;t since this is Google, and it &quot;works just fine on Linux&quot;

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.

What the heck is the &#x27;chocolate factory&#x27;?

BSD is NOT Copyleft... this article is terrible :P