Hey guys. It's been kind of a long holiday for me but I'm back and mostly no worse for the wear. You may remember before when I was talking about auditing and my talk with a vendor, and that I promised to talk about OpenSource DBs in this area. Well, here goes. And here's the original post for your reference. One of the things that gives me great pause about seriously counting on an open source DB for important Hey guys. It’s been kind of a long holiday for me but I’m back and mostly no worse for the wear. You may remember before when I was talking about auditing and my talk with a vendor, and that I promised to talk about OpenSource DBs in this area. Well, here goes. And here’s the original post for your reference. One of the things that gives me great pause about seriously counting on an open source DB for important data is that fact that you’re basically running blind. Take MySQL for example. I’ve never seen any real auditing functionality which means that you have no visibility into what’s really going on in your DB. I can’t imagine there being an auditor that would pass you on anything really important on this platform. I like MySQL for what it is, but let’s face it… the open source DBs just can’t compete with real enterprise-level products when it comes to features. I’ve said many times that they have several holes in their functionality. You also can’t parse their logs. That means that there’s no way to pull back transactions, or even audit activity in that fashion, which is one of the main ways the vendors do it. I’m even still waiting for MySQL to get some performance counters. Remember, you get what you pay for, and I just don’t think that the open source DBs are up to snuff when it comes to being audited.You MySQL gurus out there… if I’m wrong let me know and I’ll print a retraction. Databases