On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:42:43PM -0400, 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...
I want to keep the ports tree with one MySQL implementation as we have had
all along. MariaDB already includes Percona's XtraDB and some other features.
With more coming in over time plus its own features and improvements such
as the MyISAM performance improvements, Aria and other new storage engines.
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