MySQL is dead. Long live MySQL. Now that oracle owns MySQL, it will certainly kill it as quickly and quietly as possible. If you were a large corporation, why would you want to have a stable, open source, widely used software platform competing with your fee related software that is generating a profit from the corporate world. The short and sweet answer is you wouldn’t. That is why MySQL is going away.
(From http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Luckily the founder of MySQL, Michael Widenius left Sun and started his own community branch of MySQL, called MariaDB. MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement branch of MySQL® Database Server which includes all major open source storage engines, including the Maria storage engine. You can find the MariaDB code at Launchpad, and download binaries at askmonty.org Downloads.
MariaDB is community developed, in collaboration with Monty Program
Start checking it out now peeps, it is coming and you better learn about it now.
From http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
About MariaDB
MariaDB 5.1 is based on MySQL 5.1 and is available under the terms of the GPL v2 license.
MariaDB will be kept up to date with the latest MySQL release from the same branch.
In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.
Currently the main differences between MariaDB 5.1 and MySQL 5.1 are:
- Maria storage engine is included
- PBXT storage engine is included
- XtraDB storage engine is included
- FederatedX storage engine is included
- Faster complex queries
- Pool of Threads
- Fewer warnings and bugs
- Speed improvements
- Extensions (More index parts, new startup options etc)
- Better testing of features
- Table elimination
- Slow Query Log Extended Statistics
- User profiling (SHOW PROFILE) is compiled in by default.
In MariaDB 5.2, the new features are:
- Group commit for the Maria storage engine. (faster)
- userstatv2′, which creates several new information_schema tables with useful statistics information. You enable the statistics by setting the ‘userstat’ variable.
(for a definite and up-to-date list of features in 5.2, see MariaDB 5.2 page).
Askmonty.org has recently released MariaDB 5.1.41 RC for download and testing. You can download it here. It should be a drop in replacement for any recent MySQL 5.1 release.
As a final note, Oracle has made 10 promises regarding it’s commitment to Sun’s product line and is outlined here. Of course it should be noted that those promises were followed by a disclaimer called the “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statement”
which makes quite clear that the document is in no way legally binding.
He that hath an ear, let him hear…
