Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database
An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems.
Peter Zaitsev, who worked as a performance engineer at MySQL Inc before the database was bought by Oracle, has published a blog post critical of Big Red's commitment to one of the most popular open source databases.
The Russian software engineer and entrepreneur literally helped write the book on high performance MySQL, and he has previously defended Oracle's stewardship of the open source database. However, in his latest post he said Oracle's moves in the last couple of years to promote its analytics system Heatwave were among the reasons to begin to question the company's motives.
MySQL was created by the company of the same name in the mid-1990s. Sun Microsystems bought the business in 2008, and was in turn bought by Oracle in 2010.
