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Even if and when Oracle kills MySQL, there's already a fork of it as of version 6.0 called Drizzle. More background information of this can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drizzle_%28database_server%29.

Official homepage: http://drizzle.org Blog: http://blog.drizzle.org Source code: https://launchpad.net/drizzle

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Drizzle is not a valid choice for apps that require things like stored procs and triggers, which they removed. Of course, not every app requires what they remove; MariaDB is a fork by the core MySQL team, if those features are needed and MySQL cannot be used.

They're planning to add "server side scripting" in any language to replace stored procedures. It sounds quite cool.

http://krow.livejournal.com/638941.html

I have been writing extensions to Postgresql in C++ recently, and it's amazing what you can do if you have the full flexibility of loading a .so into the db process and doing whatever you want.

I didn't mean to imply that it is no longer a useful or interesting piece of software; just that it is not a simple migration for some project that specifically use MySQL features.

I did the same thing in SQL Server, too, so it's not a new concept and the other RDBMs with that ability still have a use for traditional stored procs.

My experience with both stored procs and running actual programming languages on the database is that one does not replace the other; but I'll wait with an open mind to see.

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