In September 2018, when Microsoft announced the establishment of new partnerships with leading Java open source contributors and publisher of Azul Systems. This partnership allows all Azure customers with the support of Microsoft and Azul joint offer, free use of Azul's Zulu for Azure-Enterprise Java release.
Recently, Microsoft announced that it had to expand this partnership to include SQL Server. The new release of SQL Server 2019 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3.2 began, including Azul System's Zulu, it can be embedded directly into SQL Server using the Java all the scenes (PolyBase, Apache SPark, Java scalability, etc.). In addition to the fee paid for the SQL Server without any additional cost.
Java is one of the world's most important open source projects, according to many reports, it is the world's most popular programming language . It was born about the same time with Microsoft SQL Server, 20 years ago, an earlier version of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver enables Java applications to connect to SQL Server.
In the past, SQL Server allows customers to choose their own Java Runtime, or Oracle's OpenJDK usually JavaSE. However, these two options are not ideal. For OpenJDK, if you need help, there is no support provider. Using Oracle's JavaSE, Oracle will help make the presence of your use of Java in Microsoft SQL Server in.
In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced the first version PolyBase, which is a data virtualization solutions that enable customers to use T-SQL query data Cloudera or Hortonworks is, T-SQL is heavily dependent on the interoperability layer Java.
Today, SQL Server 2019's big data cluster, with the addition of Apache SPark, HDFS and other large data components, SQL Server and Java more intertwined.
2018, Oracle's support for Java and licensing model has changed, free support for Oracle Java SE is gradually disappearing, Oracle hopes to pay the user fee Java support.
Azul Systems President and CEO Scott Sellers, said:
We have delivered OpenJDK certified version for over five years to Microsoft. Just as we did for Azure, we have expanded our partnership with Microsoft to stand together, to provide full support for the Zulu Java developer community to build SQL Server-based, without increasing the cost of development and production use.
Of course, Microsoft also said that respect for the rights of customers to choose a different style of Java. In each case the use of Java in SQL Server, there will be a way to record the performance of their Java-style, instead of using the default Zulu Embedded, and supports the provider of their choice, even if it is Oracle.
Microsoft says their mission is to empower every person on the planet each organization to achieve more goals, including all those who wish to build millions of Java developers SQL Server.
Source: in the Microsoft