Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. MySQL's first employee in Australia, Arjen Lentz, said Fedora and OpenSuSE were community driven, whereas RHEL's switch to MariaDB was a corporate decision with far-reaching implications. 'I presume there is not much love lost between Red Hat and Oracle (particularly since the "Oracle Linux" stuff started) but I'm pretty sure this move won't make Oracle any happier,' said Lentz, who now runs his own consultancy, Open Query, from Queensland. 'Thus it's a serious move in political terms.' He said that in practical terms, MariaDB should now get much more of a public footprint with people (people knowing about MariaDB and it being a/the replacement for MySQL), and direct acceptance both by individual users and corporates."

MariaDB?

[ArcadeMan]

I use unencrypted XML and CSV files you insensitive clod!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Here come the PostgreSQL fanboys, adding their standard fodder to everything related to MySQL.

Red Hat

[ArcadeMan]

We're nobody's bitch.

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[adnonsense]

Nah, Postgres sucks. Doesn't even have a decent REPAIR TABLE command or support for Februaries which have more than 29 days.

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[Anonymous Coward]

> "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results"

please stop repeating this garbage