[TYPO3-dev] sysext's

[Oliver Hader]

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Moreno Feltscher wrote:
>> Once again (in the correct list) :-)
>>
>> -1 for removing DBAL as well, otherwise please change this: Database:
>> MySQL or any other database system supported by the TYPO3 DBAL (e.g.
>> Oracle, Postgres and a lot of others) on
>> http://typo3.org/about/system-requirements/
>>
>> If you also want to stay attractive to business companies, which also
>> are able to spend money to the assocation for developing the core,
>> please keep in mind that many of them use enterprise database
>> solutions as Oracle or MSSQL.
> 
> Such companies stay with Oracle or MSSQL just because they spent time 
> and huge money training their people for these databases. But this is 
> not a problem of TYPO3. TYPO3 default database is MySQL and it is a 
> requirement. If company wants to use TYPO3 with other database, it has 
> to be ready for glitches, problems, etc. No one ever promised that TYPO3 
> will work with other databases as well as with MySQL. There is some 
> support but I see no reason to supply DBAL for everyone if only 1% uses 
> it. That big fat 1% can load DBAL from TER, no big deal.

I always thought it's the other way round... ;-)
Oracle has much more performance than MySQL (if you think about advanced 
queues and putting your business logic inside the DBMS). But I agree, 
running the TYPO3 Core on Oracle isn't a good idea - but it happens, 
that DBAL is used to integrate e.g. a products database into the TYPO3 
system which is based on Oracle.

I'm fine with removing DBAL from the Core (in 4.3), but someone has to 
take care about that extension - version "conflicts" have to be avoided 
as well then.

olly
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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Core Team