Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB

Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by ciderpunx on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:44AM (#5878924)

I use MariaDB in production. It was totally trivial to drop it in as a MySQL replacement and usually gets slightly better performance. Not to mention not relying on Oracle who one can imagine might not want to give MySQL as much love as it needs given their other database. So I can see why Redhat would want to do that.

As for the name, MySQL was named after Monty's daughter My. MariaDB was named after another daughter Maria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius). I think its sort of sweet. Maybe someone has a kid called Postgre? ;-)

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by dorfsmay on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:06AM (#5879417)

It was somebody's ex-wife who was named Gre.

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by drhodes on Friday June 14, 2013 @11:43AM (#5880522)

(Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)." more history can be found at http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by selectnull on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:17AM (#5879138)

I wonder how My feels right now?

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by danso on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:02AM (#5879394)

At being slower than Maria? Or being completely interchangeable with her? Family dinners must be awkward :)

On the other hand, both Maria and My are going to be celebrities at any computer science department/startup incubator.

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by gngeal on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:09AM (#5879249)

Oh My. What a question.

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by riffraff on Friday June 14, 2013 @05:30AM (#5879035)

also MaxDB was named after his son

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by andyhmltn on Friday June 14, 2013 @06:47AM (#5879199)

This seems to be a trend! Lets just hope there's not a kid walking around called 'Couch'

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by yen223 on Friday June 14, 2013 @07:25AM (#5879283)

Or 'Mongo', for that matter.

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by chiph on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:28AM (#5879494)

"Mongo only pawn in game of life"

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by johnohara on Friday June 14, 2013 @11:28AM (#5880442)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10

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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by abe_duarte on Friday June 14, 2013 @10:08AM (#5879984)

lol

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