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MySQL: Should I buy a license for InnoDB if I plan to use it for commercial purposes (commercial use)?

If I plan to use MySQL in a web development project (example.com), where my web application is a commercial product, where I sell the service, it so happens that MySQL, using the InnoDB engine, is the data warehouse for my web application. .. do I need to purchase a commercial license to use MySQL / InnoDB?

If I need to purchase a commercial license, can anyone recommend a good alternative to MySQL, which is free (without bindings).

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UPDATE Sorry, I made a mistake first. If you do not distribute the code of your site than not, you do not need to buy a license. The GPL restricts redistribution rather than use.

Innobase Oy provides InnoDB exclusively for Sun / MySQL, which distributes and supports InnoDB in its product offerings. InnoDB is included in the Open GNU Public License (GPL) V2 on the MySQL Enterprise Server and is suitable for a wide range of users. MySQL Community Edition, which is also available in open source under the terms of GPLv2, also includes InnoDB.

http://www.innodb.com/products/innodb/license/

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PostgreSQL is completely free and is a suitable replacement for MySQL.

From what I understand how you use MySQL, there is a free license, but I'm not sure about that.

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From my understanding, you do not need to purchase a commercial license if you want to use MySQL for commercial purposes. Purchasing a license gives you corporate support from the MySQL team, and they help you optimize and the like. Look at the comparison table:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html

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PostgreSQL does not have a commercial version and is much safer (legally) to use than MySQL, plus it is very similar to Oracle Pl / SQL, so the skills it needs are almost the same as Oracle, and they are easy to find.

To be safe, I would not use MySQL unless I purchased a license.

Here is the MySQL licensing article: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/14/mysql-free-software-but-not-open-source/

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Firebird can be a very good choice and FREE

You can also read this.

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