[dba-SQLServer] [AccessD] MySQL

So what is the real deal with MySQL community version?  Is it still maintained and advanced by the 
open source development community?  Is it a dead end?  Is MariaDB the replacement going forward?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 9/19/2011 5:31 AM, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote:
> Arthur,
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> Have a look at MariaDB. It's basically a version of MySQL which is
> maintained and developed by Monty&  co and, quite frankly, is better in many
> ways, as they have the freedom to advance the database in ways that the
> MySQL devs at Oracle are just not able to.
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> Hans-Christian
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> On 17 September 2011 18:52, Arthur Fuller<fuller.artful at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> There are some nice things about MySQL but on the other hand I definitely
>> do
>> not like where Oracle is going with this puppy since its acquisition of Sun
>> and by inheritance MySQL. I'm still on the fence about these developments,
>> but quite frankly I am leaning against Oracle on all these transmutations
>> of
>> what was originally a simple, straightforward approach. At last
>> recollection, Monty has departed, and with him, I fear, has the guiding
>> vision of this product.
>>
>> Frankly, I am all over the place on where next to go: I look at Mongo and
>> see it exquisite for web-apps but not for OLTP situations. I look at
>> PostGreSQL and think it's got a bunch of things right. I look at Oracle and
>> MS-SQL and think they have some things right as well. I frankly do not have
>> any clue into which basket to toss my next eggs.
>>
>> Arthur