Re: The future of Java

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:31:54 -0500

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David Segall wrote:

Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:59:04 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
<martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

How do you rate H2 against Derby and HSQL?

For a comparison of PosGreSQL and MySQL see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/postgresql.html

The information is a few years old.

And it ignores the gulf between the license conditions of the two
products. MySQL is GPL but the drivers are not LGPL so you can only
incorporate a MySQL driver into your application and distribute the
MySQL database if your software is open source. Even if you have some
weird objection to open source there is a genuinely, freely
distributable, version of all the commercial heavyweight databases
although they may restrict the number of processors, RAM or disk size.
Why risk contravening MySQL's deliberately confusing license
conditions?

MySQL gives you the choice of free via a GPL license or
paying for a license on commercial terms.

If you want something free under Apache/BSD/similar license,
then MySQL is not a good choice.

But a lot of people can live with GPL and a lot of people
can live with commercial terms.

Arne

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