2011/9/28 Ike Devolder <ike.devolder@gmail.com>
2011/9/28 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>
2011/9/28 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>:
Hi,
Due to Oracle's recent and absolutely unforeseeable new plans with MySQL, I thought it might be a good opportunity to put mariadb into community for those that depend on MySQL. Mariadb is designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL and as such I wondered whether it would make sense if mariadb replaced MySQL. Mariadb also conflicts with MySQL files which at least necessitates installing them to an alternative path.
I'm willing to maintain mariadb in community.
I'd like opinions on this.
I agree even bringing other forks of mysql to community, my unique concern is, how qualified do you feel to maintain them? I hope you're not bringing mariadb just because oracle, else because you feel a master (relatively speaking) with mariadb.
That said, if you feel you're qualified, i don't have any concern to have mariadb in community under your responsability.
-- Sven-Hendrik
-- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
Why you should introduce mariadb but not drop mysql:
- mariadb has nicer debug stuff - mariadb has some small performance improvements for charset conversions - mariadb should have (i cannot confirm myself) better and more stable replication (less replication breakage than mysql (my experience is with mysql 5.1 <-> mariadb 5.1, i cant speak for newer versions)
small correction :: i cannot confirm myself for newer versions than mentioned
- and last but not least, mariadb has a more open development and is not tied by any vendor (might be an advantage)
for more info http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-features
-- Ike