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This is also the reason why MediaWiki have been using binary blobs for text data in their MySQL database. And have been for years.
by Svip 13y ago
This is also the reason why MediaWiki have been using binary blobs for text data in their MySQL database. And have been for years.
- jmnicolas 13y agoAt that point they should really consider switching to another DB imo.
- Svip 13y agoPerhaps. But I think they are keeping MySQL support both for legacy reasons and compatibility reasons. You could also argue they should stop implementing it in PHP, if they are willing to sacrifice its ease of install. But MediaWiki does support other DBs, such as Postgresql and Sqlite.
- jamroom 13y agoMight not be any different, but I believe MediaWiki runs on MariaDB: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariad...