Why Canonical still stuck to MySQL?!

[mbnoimi]

Hi all,

I wonder why Canonical still stuck to MySQL while the other Linux gurus moved to MariaDB?!

MariaDB compatible with old (and current) MySQL versions so most apps which used MySQL will work fine with MariaDB

[castrojo]

Someone needed to package it for Debian/Ubuntu and it's taking time to do it right, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308

Discussion of what's going to happen happens at UDS next week if you want to participate: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/meeting/22109/servercloud-1311-mysql-alternatives/

[mbnoimi]

Discussion of what's going to happen happens at UDS next week if you want to participate: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/me...-alternatives/
Oops it seems that MariaDB needs a long time to be available in Ubuntu repositories!!!
They suggests to keep MySQL in the main for 14.04 which means MariaDB will be available at least in 14.10... I think Fedora and OpenSuSE made it available since a year ago!

[monkeybrain20122]

It is available through ppa.
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=weathercity&distro=Ubuntu&version=5.5&distro_release=saucy