I'm guessing you've not looked at MariaDB much. I used to feel the same way as you, but having recently looked at MariaDB 10, they've taken things to the next l

I'm guessing you've not looked at MariaDB much. I used to feel the same way as you, but having recently looked at MariaDB 10, they've taken things to the next level. I highly recommend taking a look at it before writing MySQL off the way you are, it's 2015 and things have changed.