[dba-Tech] google going all in with mariaDB

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 14 22:07:32 CDT 2013


On 2013-09-14 5:38 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Yeah, I think this could well be a game-changer. Particularly considering
> that for most users of MySQL is a drop-in replacement, and then some
> additional features tossed in.

MySQL runs a majority of the world's websites. For developers of those 
sites to use MariaDB as a dropin replacement for MySQL, hosting 
providers have to provide MariaDB. So far that's not happening much at all.

PB
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> Arthur
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> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter Brawley
> <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote:
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2013/09/12/google_mariadb_**
>> mysql_migration/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/>
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>> This could be a game-changer. Google evidently has decided that the open
>> source integrity of Monty's project outweighs Oracle's closed source
>> development resources and the fact that MariaDB 10.0 is still alpha!
>>
>> Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole's quote "I'd really love to see
>> a single MySQL community, I think that's more or less impossible under
>> Oracle, I don't know if that's possible under MariaDB" makes me wonder if
>> Google might try to buy MySQL from Oracle, and if Oracle won't sell, go
>> into direct competition by publishing their SkySQL/MariaDB version for
>> widespread use.
>>
>> PB
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