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"The reason a vendor like Percona or a linux distro chooses to favor MySQL or MariaDB is mostly about that vendor's relationship" Close. Percona is a consultin
by ransom1538 9y ago
"The reason a vendor like Percona or a linux distro chooses to favor MySQL or MariaDB is mostly about that vendor's relationship"
Close. Percona is a consulting firm specializing in MySQL (expanding to other things). Percona's race horse is MySQL the actual company and actual maintainers. They view MariaDB as a type of competition against their friends at MySQL. Good luck spotting the differences between Maria vs Mysql. I have gathered that from the many SFMysql meetups I have attended. The Mysql guys would show off their newest feature that beats MariaDB.
Percona is amazing and without the pt-online-schema-change tool, I would probably be a bar tender. If you ever get in a bad database bind they are worth every penny.
- zzzeek 9y agoLooking from the outside as a user and package maintainer, there is no "MySQL" company. There's just Oracle now. You can't even download MySQL's official Python driver (mysql-connector-python) from Pypi because Oracle legal is not comfortable with it. If you are looking to do business with MySQL over MariaDB, it means you are looking to get in with Oracle. Is that not accurate?
- johannes1234321 9y agoThis is btw. changing very soon. All lawyers agreed and mysql-trunk for-profit will be back on pypi as soon as we fix a few a tiny technical issues (I lead the team working on Python and other things in MySQL)
- zzzeek 9y agoThat would be amazing because we've been asking for this for literally years.
- johannes1234321 9y agoNot only you ... :-/
- pizza234 9y ago> Percona is amazing and without the pt-online-schema-change tool, I would probably be a bar tender Without the pt-online-schema-change, you would likely use gh-ost :-)