[conspire] Fun from Oracle, or: is it time to switch from MySQL to Postgres?

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

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On 3/7/12 6:57 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Adrien Lamothe (alamozzz at yahoo.com):
> 
>> Just installed the latest Debian MySQL updates and was shown the
>>  following public service announcement. I'm glad Ruby on Rails 
>> makes it so easy to switch databases; looks like it may be about 
>> time for Postgres.
> 
> Depending on your needs, there are two other easier and more 
> natural migration targets:
> 
> MariaDB:  Extremely compatible community branch (as opposed to 
> fork) of MySQL and lead-maintained by Monty Widenius, 
> architect/founder of MySQL.  They maintain ongoing high 
> compatibility and make sure they are a drop-in replacement.  Adds 
> XtraDB and Aria storage engines.  GPL v. 2.
> 
> Drizzle:  Lightweight and simplified ('slimmed down') fork of
> MySQL 6.0 from mid-2008 by Brian Aker.  Features removed:  Stored 
> Procedures, Views, Triggers (well, not entirely), Query Cache, and 
> Prepared Statements.  Simplified set of field types.  GPL v. 2 &
> 3, BSD licence.
> 

Percona server is also worth a look.

Ilan
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