At the height of Oracle's hostility towards the open source community in 2014 Ubuntu CEO Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 14.04 would keep using MySQL, even after Debian itself (and other distros) switched to MariaDB.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-says-ubuntu-is-sticking-with-mysql I've been running MariaDB everywhere since then (even on Ubuntu via PPA). Our SLURM DB has been using it since then as well. Six years now... Regards, On Thu, May 7, 2020, 22:21 Bas van der Vlies <bas.vandervl...@surfsara.nl> wrote: > We have a Debian Stretch en Debian Buster cluster and both using MariaDB > no problems so far. Version 19.05.5 and we are planning to upgrade to 20.02 > > -- > Bas van der Vlies > | Operations, Support & Development | SURFsara | Science Park 140 | 1098 > XG Amsterdam > | T +31 (0) 20 800 1300 | bas.vandervl...@surfsara.nl | www.surfsara.nl | > > > > > On 7 May 2020, at 19:41, Dustin Lang <dstnd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > According to a very quick web search, migrating from MySQL to MariaDB is > (very) easy. Does anyone have any counter-experience with Slurm databases? > > > > Thanks, > > --dustin > > > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:34 PM Christopher Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> > wrote: > > On 5/7/20 6:08 AM, Riebs, Andy wrote: > > > > > Alternatively, you could switch to MariaDB; I've been using that for > years. > > > > Debian switched to only having MariaDB in 2017 with the release of > > Debian 9 (Stretch), as a derivative distro I'm surprised that Ubuntu > > still packages MySQL. > > > > I'd second Andy's suggestion. > > > > All the best, > > Chris > > -- > > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA > > > >
