A high-level comparative overview of the features
With the recent GA release of MySQL 5.6, there have been a lot of questions about where MariaDB stands with regards to MySQL 5.6. SkySQL will of course support both as Patrik explained in his recent blog post, but there are many questions about the technical differences. Rasmus from Monty Program gave a detailed view on MariaDB 10.0 here but I thought it would be beneficial to share a comparison table of the two. MariaDB recently released a benchmark including various versions of both MariaDB and MySQL (as did DmitriK from Oracle), but this post will focus solely on features (not …
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