Using MariaDB on CentOS 6
This is just for testing purposes, but you might want to play around with MariaDB 5.5.29 coming via the CentOS 6 repositories as mentioned in this post. Please test it out and report bugs if required. The process was simple on a fresh install:
yum update cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/mariadb/mariadb.repo yum list mariadb\* yum install mariadb-server mariadb /etc/init.d/mysqld start
That’s it, it just works. It comes with MEMORY, CSV, MRG_MYISAM, BLACKHOLE, MyISAM, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, ARCHIVE, FEDERATED, InnoDB (XtraDB) and Aria.
Remember this replaces mysql-libs, and is set to replace MySQL in your install. Here’s hoping it hits mainline CentOS soon.
