Ryan Crisman wrote:
MySQL - Paid (Enterprise Edition), Paid Support MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support
While the above is true it fails to answer the question, "As DBA/sysadmin what is the actual difference between the two so I can pick the right one for my workload." At least that's the question I interpreted the first post as asking.
Right now the code bases are exactly the same. Going forward it's not clear whether I'll be able to compile Mysql Enterprise myself with support for the Sphinx storage engine which is very fast for full text searches and a feature I desperately need. Also unclear is if the high concurrency Innodb thread fixes are going to be implemented in Community or Enterprise first. Enterprise appears to be the stable branch and will have changes back ported from Community, but the docs are less than clear at this point. In any case the issues are a bit more complicated than where your support comes from at least at the high end. For your general web-app either would be fine.
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