Proposed Fedora 19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

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by IgorPartola • 13 years ago

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rohshall• 13 years ago

Kudos to Fedora for making such a bold move. Oracle's commitment to MySQL is questionable. So, even though MariaDB does not have MySQL's 'brand' recognition, it's completely backward compatible with MySQL (at least till now). And I think most people can just switch to MariaDB without any issues.

whalesalad3• 13 years ago

I run mariadb on my Mac instead of MySQL. It's been fine as a transparent replacement thus far on my contracting gigs.

jacques_chester7• 13 years ago

Speaking of drop in replacements, I've been very happy with Percona Server. The improved monitoring is worth it alone.

thejosh2• 13 years ago

Agreed - Percona Community Edition is pretty dang good.

jacques_chester7• 13 years ago

I poked around a bit before picking it. The monitoring is what sold me -- I don't do anything like enough traffic for the performance stuff to affect me.

I looked at MariaDB, Percona and Drizzle. MariaDB is very close to stock MySQL, Percona is stock + lots of performance patches and monitoring.

Drizzle was still in the middle of proving Fredrick Brooks right about second systems.

peapicker• 13 years ago

Does MariaDB still use the InnoDB engine for real work?

jyap• 13 years ago

Yep.

sandfox• 13 years ago

Ermm, doesn't both mariaDB and Percona use Percona's drop in replacement XtraDB to power innoDB instead by default? I think if you want to use innoDB (as in the original code) you have to explicitly enable it as a plugin.

dschiptsov• 13 years ago

That's good move. OSS software should be written only by passionate engineers for self-realization, not by [outsourced] corporate drones for salary and position.

darklajid• 13 years ago

My apologies. I'm starting to feel like Oracle's becoming to the 33 years old me what Microsoft was to this zeal... - erm - open-source enthusiast 10 years ago.

Even recognizing this similarity and although I know that it is childish and stupid, I cannot help to wear a fat smile when Oracle hits the news in a bad way, recently. And in moments like this I'm proud of the fact that my native language 'invented' Schadenfreude.

They just (subjectively) messed up so much. OpenOffice, Java failures, MySQL - the only news in a long time about that company that weren't about messing up software involved Larry buying a private island..

rlpb• 13 years ago

This has also been considered in Ubuntu: "MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu" https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2012-Februar... and an intermediate conclusion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2012-Februar...

Also see "Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL": http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-to-...

rmk2• 13 years ago

A similar proposition has been put forward on the openSUSE development mailing list:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-01/msg00298....

jiggy2011• 13 years ago

So , since it seems that MariaDB is the new "real" mysql is there any good reason now to do this?

On a more practical note, if I have production servers running mysql should I in theory at least be able to just drop in MariaDB as a replacement with the same config files?

Proposed Fedora 19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

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