Comments on: Three editions of MySQL are available

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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:32:29 +0000

[...] are already two indications, InnoDBbackup included for Enterprise Backup (from April Keynote) and 5.1 enterprise split. (Note: while this split may have existed prior to Oracle, it is now more clearly [...]

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:22:52 +0000

First release of advanced was 5.1.22-rc, it seems. And there is a GPL variant of the binary, since 5.1.26-rc, SPs included (.31, .34, .37).

By: TGASCARD

TGASCARD — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:23:18 +0000

But there are more :
-MySQL Cluster Standard Edition (SE)
-MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition (CGE)

It’s an option or not ?. It’s very difficult to have an answer.

By: Ronald Bradford

Ronald Bradford — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:24:59 +0000

The biggest complaint at the recent ACE Directors meeting was the complexity of pricing individual components in Oracle. The next biggest complain was the actual price.

This seems to be a start of what may ultimately be a larger matrix of additional features that you need to pay for with support.

Of course generally the features are included, and you get caught out sometime in the future for using and not getting support for all of them, but breaking the binary into removing functionality I see as the wrong way to go.

I’m sure the documentation team love this yet another variable as well.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:03:31 +0000

The partitioning in Advanced is the same as what is available in the Community version.

The only difference is that you can’t get support for partitioning under Basic/Silver, regardless of what edition you are using.

So Pro exists to provide a binary to Silver and Basic customers without partitioning support.

For Enterprise it’s purpose is as an upsell for customers that might want Basic/Silver to get them to Gold/Platinum to get partitioning support. There may also be differences with OEM licensing based on that too since it is listed on the OEM page as well:

http://www.mysql.com/oem/products.html