- Don't look back
- Is support for OSS optional in your business?
- Nokia N810 Tablet + WiMax
- Vendors need to right-size their products
- Dolphins Invade Sun Campus!
- State of Open Source
- MySQL Workbench: open source data modeling
- Comments on The 451 Group's Database Report & Red Hat's 4Q revenue
- Kaplan: Guiding open source in IT
- Can the transportation market teach us anything about the software market?
September 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Oracle upgrades open source Berkeley DB
Oracle, contrary to what some of the critics said, has done its Sleepycat acquisition proud. As reported recently, Oracle has added the ability to patch the Berkeley DB on the fly, concurrency, and other things:
Skeptics at the time said Oracle would suppress Berkeley DB development in favor of its existing embeddable systems, which include the Times Ten In-Memory database, Oracle Lite, a mobile application database, and Oracle 10g itself. But Oracle's intentions have been made clearer as it let both the former Sleepycat development team and a community of open source contributors continue to add features to the core system. The 4.5 release also includes improvements in multiversion concurrency, or the ability of the system to respond to multiple users who want information from the database at the same time that it's being updated.Good work, Oracle!
Posted by Matt Asay on September 29, 2006 06:38 AM
RATE THIS ARTICLE:
-
- COMMENTS
Thanks Matt!
As the product manager for Berkeley DB here at Oracle and a member of the now transitioned Sleepycat team I'm happy that you feel we are continuing in the tradition of the open source community. That's our goal, to build the best embedded database for use in open source and commercial applications. All three products are growing and evolving in the same way and with the same staff as before. Berkeley DB Java Edition 3.1 was also released last week, and Berkeley DB XML's next release is well on its way. We're still here, doing our thing and we're happy to see that you appreciate our work.
BTW, Berkeley DB has managed concurrency (thread, process or a combination of both) since 2.x days. With MVCC we'll allow a higher level of concurrency when page level read/write contention is an issue.
cheers,
-greg
Product Manager - Oracle Berkeley DB
- Get Started
- Port 25 Blogs
- OSS News
- Join a Project
{Open Source} Heroes Happen Here
Start today and order your own Hero Hack Pack – which includes Getting Started with Open Source, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Trial. Each pack is a chance to win a free pass to OSCON 2008.
TOP STORIES
HP buys EDS for $13.9 billionCorporate software spending slows
MS targets smartphone market
SOA Software buys LogicLibrary
Phishers scamming IRS rebates
Sun to clarify JavaFX plan
MS' dev tool service packs
Developers' role shifting
MS: SP3 reboots OEMs' fault
Apple: iPhone out of stock
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Virtualization: A Step by Step Approach to Success
- Dialing up Agility with Business Transformation
- 5 Things You Need to Know About Storage Virtualization
- Is your smaller organization ready for High Availability?
- Is system maintenance doing more harm than good?
- Virtual Test Lab Automation: Manage development infrastructure
