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- robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hopefully it will have no effect on the modules. What is being reported is that the database abstraction layer that Drupal utilizes has been ported to run on Oracle, so from the modules' point of view, it should be plug-n-play. Unless, of course, the modules use non ANSI SQL queries.
- thetoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not to forget Oracle isn't free and MySQL is.
- njt1982, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As much as I admire some of Oracles cool features - I have recently come to despise it a little due to an old CMS I had to work with...
I wish that people could just agree on one database and then get everyone to concentrate their efforts on it rather than just splitting up and making a million different ones. - MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thats good to know.
How will this affect the modules. - Souvent22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True. But Oracle is honestly exponentially more powerful than MySQL. That is when you get past "basic DB functions". (Fail over, clustering, grid-computing, terabyte+ dataminig/databases/etc.).
Although it would be cool if that kind of power came free. - jeremiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice Robert! Thank you for your work.
I will actually be interested in running both (generally mysql on most sites I maintain) and possibly against oracle in the internal corp environment that owns my 9-5 time.
(also for the reason thetoast mentioned above of course) - emocat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1See this "case study" about the OraDrup Project:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/pedros-drupal.html - Relevance4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well - with Drupal being based around small scale DB mysql/postgre there's still THOUSAND MILES away from running on Oracle and USING it's features from RAC as you specified... scalability and clustering don't just come for free by just adapting some mysql statements to oracle sql syntax LOL...
Of course it's fine to know that you can have Oracle as a DB layer, and it's def. goal to keep the DB layer transparent to the modules...
But still, with a system built without knowing about transactions, why should it suddenly benefit from having the option? With a system buitl without read-consistency, what weird stuff might happen once you HAVE read-consistency :-) - emocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oracle Database XE is indeed free, actually.
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