> How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally
Given a migration back to MySQL is not out of the table for us WMF DBAs, and I will complain if we drop compatibility; I would say both MariaDB and MySQL will probably be supported for as long as the databases are or even more- we just "upgraded" the requirements from 5.0 to 5.5 for newer mw versions. > but the list of variances seems to be slowly growing That is annoying, and even more worrying to me is MariaDB roadmap about free software/lock-in: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb https://mariadb.com/projects-using-bsl-11 > is there anywhere else (wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? If you are in charge of a mediawiki installation and want to know the ops/db maintenance side of things, get in contact with me on phabricator; I would be glad to share experiences. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Hogan, Michael C < [email protected]> wrote: > How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will > remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with > MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I > know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list > of variances seems to be slowly growing. References... > * Compatibility - [[mw:Compatibility]] > * MariaDB support? - [[mw:Topic:R1hqki3kaytylml4]] > * https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ > > Other than [[mw:Compatibility]] on mediawiki.org is there anywhere else > (wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for > technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? > > > Thank you! > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
