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Is there any reason nowadays not to deploy one of the more performant forks of MySQL (e.g. Percona, MariaDB)?

• viraptor 9y ago
  Are they more performant? It would be great to see the comparison on the same benchmark. One reason not to move to mariadb could be slight differences in schema syntax edge cases. But if you're starting from scratch, it doesn't matter.
  • jd007 9y ago
    Typically the forks include many performance tweaks over vanilla and so generally perform better. Here is an old test showing 5.5 differences in performance: http://vbtechsupport.com/657/2/ http://vbtechsupport.com/657/2/ Percona's fork is also much closer to vanilla (than MariaDB), so there shouldn't be any issues even for existing databases. Unless maybe if the system/cluster set up is very complex so there is additional cost for migration. For new projects though, I can't think of any reason to use vanilla over one of the forks.