Innobase was a Finnish company headquartered inHelsinki,Finland. Innobase is best known for being the developer of theInnoDB transactional storage engine for theMySQL open source database system. From 2005 on, Innobase was asubsidiary ofOracle Corporation, which acquired Innobase.[1] It has been fully merged into Oracle and terminated all business activities as of July 8, 2013.[2]
In 1995 Heikki Tuuri founded Innobase to develop InnoDB. In September 2000 Innobase started collaboration withMySQL AB, which resulted in the release of MySQL that incorporated InnoDB in March 2001.
InnoDB was originally closed source, but was released to open source after Innobase failed to find a buyer for InnoDB and started collaboration with MySQL. MySQL tried to close a deal with Innobase in the following years, but eventually Oracle acquired Innobase in October, 2005. Oracle eventually also acquiredSun Microsystems, owner of MySQL AB, in January 2010.
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