On 2013/03/25 19:42, William Yodlowsky wrote:
> On 25 March 2013 at 9:52, Giovanni Bechis <giova...@bigio.snb.it> wrote:
> > On 03/23/13 02:55, Brad Smith wrote:
> > > Here is a new port of MariaDB.
> > >
> > > MariaDB is a fork of MySQL maintained in the open. The development
> > > environment is so much better than what has become of MySQL AB since
> > > Oracle took over Sun. They deal with security issues in a much better
> > > manner and don't try to hide the tickets or any details regarding
> > > the issues. Bugs are fixed much quicker and tickets in general are
> > > dealt with in a much better manner. MariaDB 5.5 will replace the
> > > current MySQL 5.1 port for the next release.
> > >
> > Have you considered the few incompatibilities between MySQL and MariaDB ?
> > For example:
> > - select unix_timestamp('x') will output NULL instead of 0
> > - show processlist will give a different output
> > - The IGNORE directive does not ignore all errors
> > - The slow query log has more information about the query, which may be a
> > problem if you have a script which parses the slow query log
> > https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>
> I'd also throw out considering percona-server if we're going to look
> at alternatives...
>
It would be nice if the various forks would split off the server
and pool resources on a common client library..
