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I'm curious, does anybody know what are the advantages over PG? Pg, have a lot of tractions this days, I use it for quite a while, but I never use mariaDB. So,

• jand 11y ago
  Ok, a big selling point of current versions is: Since version 10.1, MariaDB has merged the "classic" server with the galera server. Galera promises easy-to-do scaling (see [1],[2] for details) which is nice to have. Please read the linked info and decide for yourself if this feature sounds tempting enough to you. [1] https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-1-1-galera-support/ https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-1-1-galera-support/ [2] https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-cluster https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-clu...
  • ddorian43 11y ago
    Isn't scaling usually in the way of sharding? While in this case galera it's just replication (master-master sycn), and you can only scale read access.
• sleepyhead 11y ago
  > does anybody know what are the advantages it's MySQL but not from Oracle. > over PG if you are already running MySQL then you don't have to migrate to a new completely new platform.