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Dear lazyweb, How active is the MariaDB development compared to MySQL's? Should we still be concerned with Oracle trying to kill MySQL? How has that whole deb

by jordigh 12y ago

Dear lazyweb, How active is the MariaDB development compared to MySQL's? Should we still be concerned with Oracle trying to kill MySQL? How has that whole debacle played out?

morgo 12y ago
Edward Screven addresses this point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCpd4j72jA - Oracle sees MySQL users as a distinct group of customers from the Oracle Database - 5 years on, the engineering team on MySQL is 2x what it was when acquired. By a simple metric (LoC), MySQL 5.6 has a larger delta than any previous release: https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2013/03/05/mysql-code-size/ https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2013/03/05/mysql-code-size... Edit: See also this interview with Percona's CEO - http://www.zdnet.com/article/mysql-why-the-open-source-database-is-better-off-under-oracle/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/mysql-why-the-open-source-datab...
- jordigh 12y ago
  And I unlazied myself a little and found this: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/ If marketing is to be believed, it does seem like MariaDB offers many points of attraction over MySQL. The fact that Oracle does not provide test cases or has proprietary extensions is a bit alarming from a software freedom perspective.