On 2/6/2012 11:50 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
I'm writing to the greater Debian and Ubuntu community to ask for your
thoughts on a proposal to drop MySQL in favor of MariaDB. Its clear to
me that Oracle is not going to do work in the open, and this will become
a huge support burden for Linux distributions. The recent CVE's had to
be hunted down and investigated at great difficulty to several people,
since the KB articles referenced and the internal Oracle bug numbers
referenced were not available.
I would be in agreement with this. MariaDB is showing significant
momentum for putting real improvements down. MySQL seems to be spending
a lot of time ignoring old bugs (like the microseconds storage bug that
took them something like 7 years to fix, but every other fork fixed
quickly). From an attitude that seemed to start under Sun and get worse
under Oracle, there are a startling number of old bugs that are just
languishing around for a disturbing number of years (just looking at
ones with state Verified :
http://bugs.mysql.com/search.php?cmd=display&bug_type=Server&status=Verified&os=0&bug_age=0&order_by=date&direction=ASC&limit=100&begin=0
<http://bugs.mysql.com/search.php?cmd=display&bug_type=Server&status=Verified&os=0&bug_age=0&order_by=date&direction=ASC&limit=100&begin=0>).
Monty and the MariaDB team are highly responsive, and easy to contact
through multiple mediums (always folks around in the #mariadb channel on
Freenode). They're already doing things like drastically overhauling
the query engine to finally make things like JOIN statements perform
significantly faster.
Paul
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