Is MySQL Dead? The Mystery of the "Silent Commits" (ep. 504)

If you look at the public code repository for MySQL, it looks like a ghost town. 👻🌵

There is almost no chatter. No debate. Just months of silence followed by massive, sudden dumps of code.

Many developers believe this means MySQL is dead or abandoned by Oracle. But the truth is much more calculating.

MySQL isn't dead. It’s just held hostage.

Oracle has adopted a strategy of developing MySQL behind closed doors, firing "code bombs" over the wall, and removing crucial data to choke out their competition.

In this episode of Database History, we investigate:

🕵️‍♂️ The Ghost Town: Why the world's most popular open-source database looks abandoned on GitHub.

💣 The "Code Bomb": Oracle's strategy of secret development and massive, unreadable code dumps.

☠️ The Poison Pill: How Oracle removed test cases to stop MariaDB from copying their fixes.

📉 The Exodus: Why the true open-source community packed up and moved to PostgreSQL.

It’s a story about corporate strategy, the definition of "open source," and the zombie database that still runs half the internet.

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