Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-21 Thread Bjoern Boschman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 16.02.2012 00:57, Henrik Ingo wrote: Percona Server is like MariaDB in that both of them are compatible with MySQL and you could do a plug-and-play replacement. Percona Server is much closer to MySQL (which many think is great), shall I

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-21 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I have been following this thead with interest and as it happens I have been seeking to get more involved in Debian mysql. I emailed Norbert Tretkowski though I did not get a reply. However I am not seeing my view represented here. First of all it may well be that MariaDB is better and has a more

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-21 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Bjoern Boschman bjo...@boschman.de wrote: On 16.02.2012 00:57, Henrik Ingo wrote: Percona Server is like MariaDB in that both of them are compatible with MySQL and you could do a plug-and-play replacement. Percona Server is much closer to MySQL (which many

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-21 Thread Bjoern Boschman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 16.02.2012 08:40, Henrik Ingo wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Bjoern Boschman bjo...@boschman.de wrote: On 16.02.2012 00:57, Henrik Ingo wrote: Percona Server is like MariaDB in that both of them are compatible with MySQL and you

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-21 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Bjoern Boschman bjo...@boschman.de wrote: More features even though they only apply to niche user are in general nothing bad. Many DBAs tend to be very conservative and like a less is more approach, but personally I agree with you. I wish there was fork with

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 16 Feb 2012, at 17:24, Henrik Ingo wrote: Clearly I was unclear in my previous email. The 2 year support is not true for any of the alternatives. MySQL gives 5 years (and more for customers that pay), Percona trails MySQL so they also end up doing 5 years (and more for paying

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Fabio T. Leitao
Great stuff, What ever the choice, even if it is to keep MySQL alone, lets remember MySQL will not be dropped ! Any one would still be able to install the Oracle GA if they wanted to (from some repository, probably partner, or even main) If indeed there is a replacement, I can only talk about

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
I agree 100%. Even though I'm a huge fan of PostgreSQL*,* if the standard database has been MySQL, then the next release must stay MySQL or something that's a drop-in replacement of (e.g. MariaDB). After all, those using PostgreSQL are skillful enough to know how to install PostgreSQL when they