<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Khalid B wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://www.mysql.com/products/maxdb/features.html">http://www.mysql.com/products/maxdb/features.html</A></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">No. It doesn't have transactions. Only InnoDB and BDB do.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"MaxDB is a heavy-duty, SAP-certified open source database for OLTP(Online transaction processing) and OLAP(Online Application process) usage which offers high reliability, availability, scalability and a very comprehensive feature set."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">From <A href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/maxdb/pdf/whitepaper.pdf">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/maxdb/pdf/whitepaper.pdf</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"MaxDB is never in transactionless mode."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"MaxDB is additionally available as open source under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), the most popular open source license."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">SAP is in direct competition with Oracle so it's in their interest to ensure a viable OSS DB is available if Oracle tries to choke the DB market by squeezing the bottom of the market. Although I don't see cheap hosting offering OLAP functionality for $5.95 a month. :-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Kieran</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>