Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
by mastazi on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:18PM
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Regarding the MySQL forks, what is the story? Do you mean MariaDB, or some other fork that I'm not aware of? Honestly I'm surprised at how MySQL managed to survive... Among all those other products that you mentioned, I would have thought it would be the first to die, because some people at Oracle might see it as a competitor of Oracle DB.
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Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
by paulryanrogers on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:25PM
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MySQL success is a mix of momentum, innovation in forks being backported, and a strategic focus on InnoDB at the expense of all other engines.
I'd say they are doing a mediocre job on the whole. But I may just be bitter over recent bugs like renaming a table crashing the server.
didn't Redhat remove MySql from RHEL7 and replace with MariaDB, only to add it back (in addition to Maria) in RHEL8?
Any ideas why?
Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
by neurostimulant on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:42PM
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IIRC are several forks of MySQL other than MariaDB, such as Percona.
Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
by throwaway8941 on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:22AM
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Percona is not really a fork, it's the upstream MySQL (8 currently) with some patches which add more visibility to what's going on inside (and some performance stuff like the thread pool).
Re:Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.
by neurostimulant on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:36AM
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Arguable these kind of "forks" are the one that keep mysql development and innovation progressing because those vendors would often submit those patches upstream.