MariaDB & distributions update, Dec 2013
A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions.
- Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB’s success. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 & the fact that MariaDB wasn’t even in Debian yet when the decision was made.
- MariaDB is now inside of Debian/sid – check out the packages.
- RHEL 7 comes with MariaDB 5.5 as a default; this is a good thing.
Now, from a distribution standpoint, we’re looking at starting to ship 10.0 as well. Distro maintainers don’t want one-way streets (i.e. an upgrade to MariaDB prevents you from going back to MySQL). This is something we have to deal with as more start looking at MySQL 5.6 & MariaDB 10 (think temporal literals as an example).
