On 28/09/11 16:26, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote: > Hi. > Being a sysadmin with a lot of experience on database servers I > thought I would share my experience on this case. > > I'm using mariadb as a MySQL replacement on a few servers using a > custom package[1] that uses standard mysql paths and configurations. > I've had a few inconsistencies with mysql in certain cases. MariaDB > seemed to be afflicted by old bugs that were fixed on MySQL. > On the other hand I never had a problem using percona-server [2], even > though it took me a while to tweak the package to be a functional > replacement. > > Obviously the tipycal environments in which I deployed this servers do > not cover all possible situations. For instance, I don't know if they > play nicely with kde (amarok uses an embedded mysql server, akonadi > spawns a mysql server to store its data). > > [1] > https://github.com/mtorromeo/archlinux-packages/tree/master/mariadb-mysql-replacement > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40803
The percona-server package looks great, and I'd be interested to see it in the repos. However, may I ask why it depends on mysql-clients instead of keeping its own client utilities? Is it done for compatibility reasons?