{"id":2840,"date":"2013-12-27T02:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2013-12-27T02:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:43:48","slug":"mariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/12\/27\/mariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013","title":{"rendered":"MariaDB & distributions update, Dec 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB’s success<\/a>. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 & the fact that MariaDB wasn’t even in Debian yet when the decision was made.<\/li>\n
  2. MariaDB is now<\/strong>\u00a0inside of Debian\/sid – check out the packages<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. RHEL 7 comes with MariaDB 5.5 as a default<\/a>; this is a good thing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, from a distribution standpoint, we’re looking at starting to ship 10.0 as well. Distro maintainers don’t want one-way streets (i.e. an upgrade to MariaDB prevents you from going back to MySQL). This is something we have to deal with as more start looking at MySQL 5.6 & MariaDB 10 (think temporal literals<\/a> as an example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions.\u00a0 Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB’s success. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 & the fact that MariaDB wasn’t even in Debian yet when the decision was made. MariaDB is now\u00a0inside of Debian\/sid – check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1064,23],"tags":[741,1052,1610,1629,1775,1005,15],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mariadb-databases","category-mysql","tag-debian","tag-mariadb","tag-mariadb-10-0","tag-mariadb-5-5","tag-mysql","tag-rhel","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}