InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition

By Debjit on November 5th, 2010

UPDATE: The product chart has now been updated which says MySQL Classic Edition is for use as a embedded database and is not available as an Annual Subscription

In a move to make MySQL more profitable, Oracle has dropped support for InnoDB storage engine from the MySQL Classic edition which is available for free. So this free version of MySQL - the classic edition is left with only one storage engine, that is MyISAM. InnoDB Storage engine will be available only from MySQL Standard edition and above which starts at US$2000. However, InnoDB is still available for free on the MySQL Community edition.

New product chart: MySQL Classic edition is for use as an embedded database

Old Product Chart: InnoDB storage engine support dropped from Oracle MySQL Classic Edition

A quick look at the MySQL product page shows that Storage Engine: InnoDB is not available for the MySQL Classic Edition. Ironically, InnoDB is a property of Oracle after it acquired InnoDB's parent company Innobase way back in 2005.

This may very well pose to be a problem for developers and businesses who have their entire database structure in MySQL. And since InnoDB is stated to be a faster storage engine, companies generally tend to chose Innodb. Now that InnoDB is no more free, developers as well as businesses have to look out for suitable alternatives.

PostgreSQL has been a competing database to MySQL from some time now and we feel now is the time PostgreSQL may start gaining popularity. There is another option called NoSQL which is primarily meant for applications that have to scale on the cloud.

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Morgan Tocker

So your article is wrong, much like the other articles on this today.

MySQL Classic is the name of the OEM edition of MySQL – which has basically never included InnoDB. No changes here.

MySQL Community is the open source version, and continues to be available with InnoDB, and completely free.

Go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html – you can still download it.
- http://digitizor.com Debjit
  
  If you read the article properly, we have mentioned that InnoDB is available in the community edition for free. Thank You
  - Steve Pinkham
    
    This article is indeed misleading for people who aren’t up to date with the terminology for the different versions of MySQL, as other comments and trackbacks show.
    
    The text above the picture says something very different from the text below the picture, as it is simply not true that the “InnoDB Storage engine will be available only from MySQL Standard edition and above which starts at US$2000″ as the text claims.
  - Gerryjun
    
    “MySQL Classic is the name of the OEM edition of MySQL – which has basically never included InnoDB. No changes here.”
    
    So this is basically all about nothing? since it was never really included on the classic edition in the first place.
  - http://digitizor.com Debjit
    
    @steve & @gerryjun: We are not misleading anyone. It was just a confusion which MySQL has now cleared by updating their product page. Please check the two screenshots of the product page above.
    
    Sorry for all the confusion.
Jasper

Well, this is why people have started developing MariaDB..
- http://digitizor.com Debjit
  
  I think MariaDB will be the most sought after databases in coming days as it is a fork of MySQL
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Callix

Please also consider the Firebird database. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. is licensed under the IPL (InterBase Public License) and the IDPL (Initial Developer’s Public License) which have the same terms as the Mozilla Public License 1.1. Firebird is completely free to use and deploy to your customers. You don’t need to release the source code for your own product, regardless of your licensing model.
- http://digitizor.com Debjit
  
  Hello Callix, is Firebird based on NoSQL principles?
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very informatif post, i use mysql in my database..
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  Hi Henry, Glad you liked it
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good to know.
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Deus

“Now that InnoDB is no more free, developers as well as businesses have to look out for suitable alternatives.”
The article makes it sound like such a crying shame they put a price on their product. If developers and businesses have systems which heavily relies upon the InnoDB technology, then perhaps it’s time to pay a little for it? An argument can, and will, of course, be made for tiny hypothetical businesses of which none have those $2000 in excess. Then again, what small business have huge traffic or otherwise great need of a specialized database engine?
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Anonymous

“There is another option called NoSQL which is primarily meant for applications that have to scale on the cloud.”

Er, “NoSQL” is just a dumb way of saying “everything that isn’t using SQL”, and since it encompasses dozens of different technologies it’s not “primarily meant” for anything.

That’s like saying “There is another option called NoWalk which is primarily meant for transportation traveling across great distances”.
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“NoSQL” isn’t a replacement RDBMS for MySQL like PostgreSQL is. It’s the name of a technology/movement/philosophy.
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