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Amazon RDS Update – MariaDB Is Now Available

49 points by pzb 11y ago

danso 11y ago
I've used MariaDB in production a few years back and didn't notice any differences in operation except for an esoteric bug with some version of Ubuntu that required making a minor change to the config file...otherwise, it worked as a drop-in replacement as advertised, though this app didn't do anything particularly exotic outside of the standard Rails/ActiveRecord conventions... Has much changed? Is MariaDB still pretty much a drop-in replacement? And has anyone moved a non-trivial app from MySQL to MariaDB...or would be confident in making that move on RDS, on the heels of this announcement? I mean, if there aren't any production problems, the change in licensing [1] alone seems like it could be enough of a reason (although I may be misunderstanding MySQL's licensing, it's always been a little confusing to me). [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/227242 http://stackoverflow.com/a/227242
- larrik 11y ago
  We moved from MySQL on RDS to MariaDB and back and didn't run into any real issues.
- morgo 11y ago
  Just to clarify here: The license for MySQL remains the same (GPLv2). It has not changed at any point.
- rebelxt 11y ago
  yes, MariaDB is still a drop-in replacement for MySQL with a number of enhancements. There are a few minor incompatibilities to be aware of. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...
joeblow99 11y ago
But it's not NoSQL so it's garbage.
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mtgx 11y ago
Apparently this doesn't include the version that comes with data at rest encryption (10.1.3): https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/
- bytebot 11y ago
  MariaDB 10.1 is not a GA release, yet. When it goes GA, presumably this will also be available on RDS. Currently 5.5 & 10.0 are GA releases.
- rebelxt 11y ago
  RDS MariaDB already supports encryption at rest, so you don't need to wait for 10.1: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overview.Encryption.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overvi...
copsarebastards 11y ago
Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.

49 points by pzb 11y ago

danso 11y ago

I've used MariaDB in production a few years back and didn't notice any differences in operation except for an esoteric bug with some version of Ubuntu that required making a minor change to the config file...otherwise, it worked as a drop-in replacement as advertised, though this app didn't do anything particularly exotic outside of the standard Rails/ActiveRecord conventions... Has much changed? Is MariaDB still pretty much a drop-in replacement? And has anyone moved a non-trivial app from MySQL to MariaDB...or would be confident in making that move on RDS, on the heels of this announcement? I mean, if there aren't any production problems, the change in licensing [1] alone seems like it could be enough of a reason (although I may be misunderstanding MySQL's licensing, it's always been a little confusing to me). [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/227242 http://stackoverflow.com/a/227242

larrik 11y ago
We moved from MySQL on RDS to MariaDB and back and didn't run into any real issues.
morgo 11y ago
Just to clarify here: The license for MySQL remains the same (GPLv2). It has not changed at any point.
rebelxt 11y ago
yes, MariaDB is still a drop-in replacement for MySQL with a number of enhancements. There are a few minor incompatibilities to be aware of. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...

joeblow99 11y ago

But it's not NoSQL so it's garbage.

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mtgx 11y ago

Apparently this doesn't include the version that comes with data at rest encryption (10.1.3): https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/data-at-rest-encryption/

bytebot 11y ago
MariaDB 10.1 is not a GA release, yet. When it goes GA, presumably this will also be available on RDS. Currently 5.5 & 10.0 are GA releases.
rebelxt 11y ago
RDS MariaDB already supports encryption at rest, so you don't need to wait for 10.1: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overview.Encryption.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overvi...

copsarebastards 11y ago

Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.