I have already moved some of my servers to mariadb, with minor to none
downtime during the process, but I have also kept some of them stuck with
mysql just because of the "official" support (well, it is the elected one
in main repository after all)
I have also done some bench marking and have also
have got those binaries from their official repository:
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.2/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386
I also use their libraries for apache and rails (the framework that runs on
these servers)
2012/2/12 Marc Deslauriers
> On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 20:47 -0200, Fabio T. Lei
For those who have not followed this up closely, a little history.
Remember that MariaDB is not just "compatible" with MySQL, but it kind of
IS MySQL, forked and re-branded.
In 2009, even before Oracle has purchased Sun, Monty Widenius (one of the
original creators of MySQL and architects) has le
"My". MariaDB continues this
tradition by being named after his younger daughter."
If you need to confirm the compatibly and known incompatibilities between
them, http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility
2012/2/14 Fabio T. Leitao
> For those who have not f
Great stuff,
What ever the choice, even if it is to keep MySQL alone, lets remember
MySQL will not be dropped ! Any one would still be able to install the
Oracle GA if they wanted to (from some repository, probably partner, or
even main)
If indeed there is a replacement, I can only talk about wha
