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Wasn't that the entire point of Maria? Why did they do that this is the first I've heard of that

• cinntaile 3y ago
  API parity with your competitor is hardly a viable, long-term strategy.
  • SteveNuts 3y ago
    Why not? It's worked for Postgres for a long time. The key is to make "API compatibility" table stakes and add value on top of it.
    • cinntaile 3y ago
      That's definitely a possible strategy, I was (naively) considering a situation where they didn't add a lot of value on top of it.
• evanelias 3y ago
  No, MariaDB is a fork and has meaningful functionality differences from MySQL. They've been diverging for over a decade and aren't drop-in replacements for each other. Meanwhile Percona Server is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, essentially it's a large patch-set on top of MySQL rather than a fork. Percona Server releases line up with MySQL releases and versioning. Whenever Percona Server features break binary compatibility, it's explicitly noted in their manual, and not enabled by default.