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Naive question (I only use PostgreSQL and SQLite): is there any point using MySQL over MariaDB nowadays?
by remram 5y ago
Naive question (I only use PostgreSQL and SQLite): is there any point using MySQL over MariaDB nowadays?
- throwaway984393 5y agoPretty much only three reasons: you want Enterprise support, you don't want to think about license terms, and you really want to help pay for Larry Ellison's personal island.
- tehbeard 5y agoLast I checked mariaDB still misses some functiinality around JSON, and i don't know what the story is exactly about compat. With the newer X protocol and its collections.
- evanelias 5y agoMySQL 8 has a lot of functionality that MariaDB lacks. People like to criticize MySQL for some bad engineering decisions made decades ago. For whatever reason, often these folks have a more positive view of MariaDB, but without stopping to consider where all those original MySQL engineers went. FWIW one of the footnotes in the original article touches on this too.