Comments on: MaxDB: The enhanced SAP database from MySQL

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:50:06 +0000

As far as I'm aware, MAXDB is completely different from MySQL, although it's sold by the same company. It's basically SAP's DB, which is really
just a fork off of Adabas D, which has been a mainframe database for a long time.

So, it really has nothing to do with MySQL, just the MySQL company.

I looked into SAPDB once a long time ago. It has several good features, including:

* Oracle 7 compatibility mode
* Several data warehousing enhancements
* My favorite — TABLESPACES!!

It was near impossible to install, but seemed to work a lot like Oracle. Just my impression. Again, this has nothing to do with the MySQL product.

Jon

By: Peter Bartlett

Peter Bartlett — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:44:40 +0000

There is some interesting Q&A on TechTarget:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci937988,00.html?track=NL-76

The questions I have are:

1. Will MySQL "integrate" MaxDB and its flagship database? AFAIK they are two very different databases. MaxDB is just a marketing job on the SAP database.

2. What now happens to MySQL users, and their enterprise dreams? Especially given that the licensing is different?

By: Kirin

Kirin — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:11:44 +0000

if you download maxdb the installation docs are here; http://www.mysql.com/documentation/maxdb/default.htm