We come with ample expertise in MySQL
Database management has become easy with the use of open source. There are plenty of solutions available in the market, which are backed by the community. Jagmeet Singh of OSFY talked with Pradeep Chandru, founder and CEO of Mafiree, to know about the lat
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How are you exploring the capabilities of open source to support enterprises in India?
We come with ample expertise in MySQL. This has helped us fulfil the migration requirements of a large number of enterprise customers in India, with ease. We have shown our customers, through benchmarking, the improved performance a well-tuned open source solution can give them. We also leverage these use cases when we pitch for new enterprise customers.
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Do you feel that open source has moved beyond just giving those starting a business a kickstart—that it has become a big movement, which is growing in the market?
Yes. In the current scenario, almost all types of industries have started exploring open source technologies to meet different needs. This includes even government bodies and PSUs. This is mainly due to the wide variety of options available in open source technologies, and besides, the requirements of today’s industries have also expanded to a great extent. The demand-supply balance in today’s world cannot be met only with proprietary technologies. Open source plays a critical role here.
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Why did you choose MySQL to kickstart your database management operations?
Before becoming one of the founders of Mafiree, I had ventured into the MySQL world for more than half a decade. Hence, there was a natural affinity towards that technology. Being an open source platform, MySQL has scaled up to a level that no other contemporary open source RDBMS solution has been able to. Therefore, we were able to predict the enormous potential that MySQL possessed and wanted to help other open source enthusiasts in harvesting its benefits. We started by cracking a big deal with Sun Microsystems involving a migration from Oracle to MySQL. This was hugely successful for us and helped us start on this journey on a positive note.
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Is it easy to opt for an open source solution like MySQL or PostgreSQL over Oracle and SAP to manage large data logs? We were able to successfully migrate quite huge systems from Oracle to MySQL/Postgres. We have migrated systems that had more than 10TB of data and 4,500 concurrent users from an Oracle environment to MySQL, without degrading the performance. This is because we took advantage of many architectural features that were available in MySQL, which proved to be better than Oracle.
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What are the challenges in migrating a database from a proprietary solution such as Oracle and SAP to an open source one like MySQL?
In old legacy systems, we have seen people use packages which may not have a direct equivalent in MySQL and we may have to use a workaround to manage this migration. But nowadays, it has become easier to migrate applications that use inline queries compared to a legacy application that uses stored processes, in which case we might need changes to be done in stored procedures.