Hello, Denis.

Who can contribute to gridgain/h2?

Who are commiters of gridgain/h2?


В Чт, 04/07/2019 в 19:26 +0300, Dmitriy Pavlov пишет:
> Hi Denis,
> 
> As you know, some time ago I've started a discussion about removing
> dependence from gridgain:shmem. Ignite community seems to be not so much
> interested in this removal, for now. So once added it could stay here
> forever. Reverse dependency direction seems to be more natural. It is like
> the open-core model.
> 
> I feel more comfortable if all Ignite dependencies are released as part of
> the Ignite code base, or some open governed project with a license from
> Category A https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html.
> 
> It is true that H2 has Category B license, so derivative can't be committed
> into ASF repository.
> 
> What if we consult with le...@apache.org to find additional ways to donate
> forked version into ASF codebase? We anyway need their approval because
> gridgain/h2 has a non-standard license, so we should approve including
> non-standard licensed component it the product.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dmitriy Pavlov
> 
> чт, 4 июл. 2019 г. в 18:57, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org>:
> 
> > Hi Igniters,
> > 
> > As you know, Ignite SQL engine is tightly coupled with the H2 database that
> > provides basic parsing and query execution capabilities.  This synergy has
> > worked well for a while until Ignite SQL engine got a much broader adoption
> > for all sort of use cases.
> > 
> > Presently, there is a list of impactful issues and limitations related to
> > memory management, distributed engine optimization, and queries planning
> > that require changes in H2. We've tried to contribute to H2 directly with
> > no significant luck - what's needed for our distributed engine is of no
> > interest to H2 community. At the same time, we can't leave the things as
> > is, as long as these limitations keep Ignite SQL engine from gradual
> > evolution.
> > 
> > As a solution, we created an H2 fork [1] and did all of the required
> > changes there. We would be happy to include the fork into Ignite source
> > base, but H2's license (available under dual MPL 2.0 and EPL 1.0) is not
> > compliant with Apache 2.0. However, if Ignite starts using our maven
> > artifacts instead of the standard H2's ones, then the licensing issue is
> > solved.
> > 
> > Is the community ready to accept this solution and swap the standard H2
> > artifact with the one prepared by GridGain? Presently, all of those
> > improvements are available to GridGain customers, but GridGain wants to
> > make all of them be available for Ignite community. And that's the only
> > legal way we've come up with...
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/gridgain/gridgain/tree/master/modules/h2
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > -
> > Denis
> > 

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