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MySQL on Mesos: today's database meets tomorrow's datacenter

by dignati on 4/24/15, 5:27 PM with 1 comments

• by otoburb on 4/24/15, 5:48 PM

  Can anybody shed some light on why they're still using MySQL instead of MariaDB? MariaDB is supposed to be "ensuring drop-in replacement capability" with MySQL[1].

  From what I gathered, the main reason people would want to move over to MariaDB is a concern over the Oracle licensing of MySQL, which prompted some of the original MySQL developers to create the MariaDB community fork.

  I'm asking this question more from a greenfield perspective rather than as a continuation/expansion of an existing MySQL deployment.

  [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB