[gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[Tanstaafl]

Hi all,

I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about 
the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references 
Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it 
inherited when it bought Sun):

https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00514.html

In it is discussed - among many other things including lots of good 
reason *why* - the possibility of replacing MySQL with MariaDB in 
anticipation of Oracle's current poor stewardship of MySQL...

My question is - shouldn't gentoo be considering this move as well?


I've been seriously considering this for my own servers for some time, 
and after reading this, I think it is time to stop thinking about it and 
just do it, but I'm a bit nervous - ianap, and don't want to shoot 
myself in the foot in the process.

Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience?

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[Matthew Finkel]

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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the
> poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references
> Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited
> when it bought Sun):
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/**maria-discuss/msg00514.html<https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00514.html>
>
> In it is discussed - among many other things including lots of good reason
> *why* - the possibility of replacing MySQL with MariaDB in anticipation of
> Oracle's current poor stewardship of MySQL...
>
> My question is - shouldn't gentoo be considering this move as well?
>
>
> I've been seriously considering this for my own servers for some time, and
> after reading this, I think it is time to stop thinking about it and just
> do it, but I'm a bit nervous - ianap, and don't want to shoot myself in the
> foot in the process.
>
> Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience?
>
>

It's definitely an interesting dilemma, but one that was expected to happen
eventually. Lucky Gentoo doesn't have to worry about release cycles.
MariaDB is in portage so, in theory, it shouldn't be too difficult for any
of us to make the switch.

- Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Mar 2, 2012 3:50 AM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about
the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references
Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited
when it bought Sun):
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00514.html
>
> In it is discussed - among many other things including lots of good
reason *why* - the possibility of replacing MySQL with MariaDB in
anticipation of Oracle's current poor stewardship of MySQL...
>
> My question is - shouldn't gentoo be considering this move as well?
>
>
> I've been seriously considering this for my own servers for some time,
and after reading this, I think it is time to stop thinking about it and
just do it, but I'm a bit nervous - ianap, and don't want to shoot myself
in the foot in the process.
>
> Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience?
>

Back in the ubuntu-server mailing list, this has been the topic of a lively
discussion last week.

The consensus seemed to be that MariaDB and Percona would be drop-in
replacements for MySQL.

Myself, I'm a PostgreSQL guy so I have no opinion ;-)

Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[Alex Schuster]

Tanstaafl writes:

> Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience?

I use MySQL for an oooold phpBB board and for Amarok, and do not now much
about it. I never explicitely installed MySQL, I only have the mysql USE
flag set for things like python or PHP. Somehow, dev-db/mysql was never
installed, but I have dev-db/mariadb installed instead. Seems I already
made the switch, without knowing about it.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time?

[Jorge Martínez López]

2012/3/2 Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@gmail.com>:
>
> It's definitely an interesting dilemma, but one that was expected to happen
> eventually. Lucky Gentoo doesn't have to worry about release cycles. MariaDB
> is in portage so, in theory, it shouldn't be too difficult for any of us to
> make the switch.

Seeing how successful is Oracle managing a free software community
(OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, Harmony) I made the switch yesterday
with zero issues:

keyworded <=dev-db/mariadb-5.2 (make sure you install the same minor
version as you have with MySQL).
emerge -aC mysql
emerge mariabd

And that's it.

Greetings,
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