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MariaDB Server

Databases · C/C++

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Relational database server forked from MySQL, with pluggable storage engines including InnoDB, Aria and ColumnStore.

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The clearest demonstration that copyleft follows the code you ship, not the wire: your application talks to a GPL server over a socket using LGPL connectors, and none of that makes your application GPL. MariaDB exists because the licensing around MySQL, which Oracle still dual-licenses commercially, worried its own developers.Community pick

Details

Use case
Databases
Language
C++C/C++ ecosystem
Licence
GPL-2.0-onlyCopyleft: Distributing it obliges you to release your source under the same terms.The server is GPL-2.0-only, but the C, Java and ODBC connectors are LGPL-2.1-or-later, so ordinary client applications take on no copyleft.
Activity
ActiveReleasing regularly
Package
Source build (distro package mariadb-server; Docker: mariadb)
Tags
sql · relational-database · mysql-fork · innodb · server

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