Hello,
We have started to use (pilot) the Media Wiki at our company (>1500 emp.). It is not convenient for us to run another kind of DB system, such as MySQL as we have standardised ways of storing,managing and backing up our data. Are there any implementations with or plans for an Oracle database backend for the media wiki?
Thanks,
Stefan Urbanek -- http://stefan.agentfarms.net
stefan wrote:
Hello,
We have started to use (pilot) the Media Wiki at our company (>1500 emp.). It is not convenient for us to run another kind of DB system, such as MySQL as we have standardised ways of storing,managing and backing up our data. Are there any implementations with or plans for an Oracle database backend for the media wiki?
No. We've discussed the possibility of such a feature, but nothing has been done. We have a rudimentary DBMS abstraction architecture, you can always write the subclass yourself if you want. But I'm told changes would have to be made to the bulk of the code as well.
A number of other wiki engines support Oracle, for example PhpWiki and TikiWiki.
-- Tim Starling
On Jan 18, 2005, at 6:24 AM, stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:
We have started to use (pilot) the Media Wiki at our company (>1500 emp.). It is not convenient for us to run another kind of DB system, such as MySQL as we have standardised ways of storing,managing and backing up our data. Are there any implementations with or plans for an Oracle database backend for the media wiki?
No, there's very little interest in supporting hyperexpensive proprietary databases. You could try porting it (based on the PostgreSQL support) but I doubt this would be easier than running one mysqld.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:
Hello,
We have started to use (pilot) the Media Wiki at our company (>1500 emp.). It is not convenient for us to run another kind of DB system, such as MySQL as we have standardised ways of storing,managing and backing up our data. Are there any implementations with or plans for an Oracle database backend for the media wiki?
Hello,
Supporting Oracle is in an enhancement request in our bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652
Does not look like there is anything for it yet :o)
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