Innobase was a Finnish company headquartered in

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. Innobase is best known for being the developer of the

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transactional storage engine for the

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

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, 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
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History

In 1995

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founded Innobase to develop InnoDB. In September 2000 Innobase started collaboration with

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, 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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