I agree. Also, MariaDB is being actively developed. A lot of Linux distributions are defaulting to MariaDB. The recent release of Debian stable (jessie) has

I agree. Also, MariaDB is being actively developed. A lot of Linux distributions are defaulting to MariaDB. The recent release of Debian stable (jessie) has MariaDB. So far I've only been using it on new machines, but I may even migrate my existing MySQL servers to MariaDB.