Innobase was a Finnish company headquartered in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

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. Innobase is best known for being the developer of the InnoDB transactional storage engine for the

MySQL MySQL () is an Open-source software, open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A rel ...

open source database system. From 2005 on, Innobase was a

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Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

, which acquired Innobase. It has been fully merged into Oracle and terminated all business activities as of July 8, 2013.Innobase Oy historical information in the Finnish Business Information System
Retrieved 28 Aug 2013

History

In 1995 Heikki Tuuri founded Innobase to develop InnoDB. In September 2000 Innobase started collaboration with MySQL 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 acquired

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, owner of MySQL AB, in January 2010.

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