MariaDB looks likely to inherit a big slice, possibly even a majority, of MySQL's user base over time.
It's not just because MariaDB is as good as any of the "official" editions of MySQL offered by Oracle, but because it has only a single code base under a single Free license (as opposed to differently licensed "open source" and "enterprise" editions), because it has an active not-for-profit foundation looking out for the project and the community[1], and because many of the original contributors to MySQL, including founder Monty Widenius, are now working full-time on MariaDB.[2]
Say hello to the new MySQL -- MariaDB -- same as the old MySQL!
The official post is excellent, we should swap out the blogspam link for it.
"For our most common query type, 95th percentile times over an 8-hour period dropped from 56ms to 43ms and the average from 15.4ms to 12.7ms. 50th percentile times remained a bit better with the 5.1-facebook build over the sample period, 0.185ms vs. 0.194ms. Many query types were 4-15% faster with MariaDB 5.5.30 under production load, a few were 5% slower, and nothing appeared aberrant beyond those bounds."
MariaDB looks likely to inherit a big slice, possibly even a majority, of MySQL's user base over time.
It's not just because MariaDB is as good as any of the "official" editions of MySQL offered by Oracle, but because it has only a single code base under a single Free license (as opposed to differently licensed "open source" and "enterprise" editions), because it has an active not-for-profit foundation looking out for the project and the community[1], and because many of the original contributors to MySQL, including founder Monty Widenius, are now working full-time on MariaDB.[2]
Say hello to the new MySQL -- MariaDB -- same as the old MySQL!
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[1] https://mariadb.org/en/foundation/
[2] http://www.skysql.com/news-and-events/press-releases/skysql-...