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I use MariaDB in production. It was totally trivial to drop it in as a MySQL replacement and usually gets slightly better performance. Not to mention not relyin

I use MariaDB in production. It was totally trivial to drop it in as a MySQL replacement and usually gets slightly better performance. Not to mention not relying on Oracle who one can imagine might not want to give MySQL as much love as it needs given their other database. So I can see why Redhat would want to do that. As for the name, MySQL was named after Monty's daughter My. MariaDB was named after another daughter Maria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius). I think its sort of sweet. Maybe someone has a kid called Postgre? ;-)

riffraff 13y ago
also MaxDB was named after his son
- andyhmltn 13y ago
  This seems to be a trend! Lets just hope there's not a kid walking around called 'Couch'
  - yen223 13y ago
    Or 'Mongo', for that matter.
    - chiph 13y ago
      "Mongo only pawn in game of life"
      - johnohara 13y ago
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10
    - abe_duarte 13y ago
      lol
selectnull 13y ago
I wonder how My feels right now?
- gngeal 13y ago
  Oh My. What a question.
- danso 13y ago
  At being slower than Maria? Or being completely interchangeable with her? Family dinners must be awkward :) On the other hand, both Maria and My are going to be celebrities at any computer science department/startup incubator.
dorfsmay 13y ago
It was somebody's ex-wife who was named Gre.
- drhodes 13y ago
  (Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)." more history can be found at http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/ http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/