[Techtalk] MariaDB vs. MySQL

Kathryn Hogg kjh at flyballdogs.com
Wed Oct 9 16:20:27 UTC 2013


On 2013-10-09 10:37, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Good day Techtalkers!
> 
> Who has thoughts on dumping MySQL for MariaDB? Is MariaDB better in
> some ways, or is it just mistrust of Oracle? Which is enough reason
> for me, but I'm also curious about technical merits and differences.

Fedora 19 made the switch so I've been running MariaDB 5.5 for several 
months. To be honest, I haven't really noticed any difference at this 
time.  However, I expect that over time it will be become more like 
libreoffice and openoffice.

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