What exactly does these words prove? Monty has been known to shit on Oracle's efforts just because they are from Oracle, regardless of their quality (as do many

What exactly does these words prove? Monty has been known to shit on Oracle's efforts just because they are from Oracle, regardless of their quality (as do many others, proven by this very discussion). He's the head of a competing fork that they're trying to monetize, I would take his words with a shovel of salt. The real problems with MySQL are: - the bugs database is not public (as he's said) - all development is going behind closed doors; MariaDB is more open to the public That's it. Quality-wise it's better than MariaDB IMHO. And they pay more attention to low-level stuff that doesn't add too many new features but greatly improves things like reliability (such as rewriting the underlying InnoDB storage format). Although that one did introduce a significant feature (transactional and fully atomic DDL, which MariaDB implemented only partly and recently). MariaDB has its share of problems. For example, they have exactly the opposite issue of what he's describing: in their first releases they've imported mountains of code from other MySQL forks without much testing (especially from Percona), things like Cassandra and TokuDB that went practically unmaintained for years and are now in the process of being removed. All to toggle as many feature checkboxes as possible ("look at how much shiny new stuff we ship!") I personally don't use new MariaDB releases until at least their 5th or 6th patchset. I also don't really understand this question: > Then explain MariaDB? Monty didn't want to work under Oracle. He left and started a competitor. What else to explain?