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MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.

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MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-14 22:42:10 UTC to 2026-08-04 19:00:15 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

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stefanos82·Sep 29, 2023
MariaDB [1] is a community developed fork of MySQL, so you can feel free to use that in place of MySQL. Another alternative would be Percona [2] which is a drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL. About PostgreSQL I haven't had that much of personal experience with it, but for sure I plan to learn it, because it has been battle-tested for years with lots of well-known projects, such as Django framework, for instance. [1] https://github.com/MariaDB/server [2] https://github.com/percona/percona-server
In Ask HN: Postgres vs. MySQL in 2023?
mdaniel·Dec 20, 2022
My recollection is that it was created when Oracle took over MySQL in order to continue to have a community-driven GPLv2 "mysql compatible" server; I was expecting them to be more different than they are, but for comparison one is a "clean" GPLv2" and the other has more words and a link to oracle.com: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/mysql-8.0.31/LICE... https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/mariadb-10.11.1/COPYI...
In MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger
adev_·May 6, 2020
> MySQL (C) MySQL and MariaDB are a mixed of C++ and C nowadays [^2] [^1]. Most Database reimplementation nowadays are C++, Go or more recently (Rust). > - message buses: DBus (C) ZeroMQ is C++, Same for gRPC (reference of RPC nowadays), same for Thrift [^4] > - games Almost all triple A use the Unreal Engine or an home made engine in C++. Even Unity that brand itself as C# uses some C++ internally. > distributed systems Almost all Distributed system in the HPC world is C++ or Julia nowadays, with a bit of Fortran surviving. > - AI runtimes AI means often GPU usage, GPU usage means CUDA, meaning C++. That's valid for the today three main contenders (Tensorflow, pyTorch, MXNet ) and they all provide a python API on top of C++. > Now let's add one obvious category which was suspiciously left out from this list: operating systems: Unix, BSD
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s, Linux, Plan 9, Illumos, GNU Mach, Windows NT, XNU --- there is almost no C++ here (and any C++ that there is in just the last two). C++ is also in Fushia (Google) and BeOS/Haiku. But OS are mainly C (or Rust nowaday) because kernel space. Exception handling is problematic in kernel space. [^1]: https:/github.com/MariaDB/server [^2]: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server [^3]: https://zeromq.org/ [^4]: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift
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JdeBP·Apr 23, 2017Recommendation phrase
You really should take the tack of learning about this subject rather than following rubbish numbers pulled out of thin air with more rubbish numbers pulled out of thin air. Here's the System 5 rc script for MariaDB. At 453 lines it is not even one order of magnitude larger than the systemd service unit, let alone orders of magnitude. * https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.1/support-files/my... I recommend actually learning about the reality of MongoDB. For starters, the systemd service units supplied in the likes of Ubuntu and Debian do not set any of the settings recommended for MongoDB by its authors, so here (as in so many cases with systemd service units in the wild, alas) shortness actually equates to not doing things properly. * http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/mo... * https://sources.debian.net/src
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/mongodb/1:3.2.11-2/debian/mon... * https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/ulimit/#linux-dist... Another example of such is WSO2 Carbon, with a 14-line system service unit from one source that gets things grossly wrong. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/systemd-house-of-horror/wso2.html I recommend actually learning about Caddy, too. Ironically, the subject of its service unit came up here on Hacker News only a day ago. It is 43 lines long, some 6 times the length of the supposed 7-line systemd service unit being bandied about here, and not as far different from those for MySQL and Percona as you imply; and it does not attempt to be "more modern" as you claim, as it entirely lacks the socket unit that would make it more in line with the systemd way of doing things. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167704 The idea that this is "modern service design" is borne of not knowing the subject, too. The sort of design changes recommended by the systemd people are in fact pretty much the same sort of design changes recommended by IBM in 1992 for services managed by the System Resource Controller and recommended by quite a lot of other people since, including Apple and ... well ... me for many years. Whilst this is good service design, it is not "modern", and not in any way unique or original to systemd. To further alleviate the ignorance of MySQL as well as demonstrate how this is far from "modern" and not something that one gets to claim for systemd service units, I point out that people were running mysqld without mysql_safe, in the very way that the systemd people are by all appearances just learning about in their mailing list discussion, under daemontools in 2002. I strongly suspect that that wasn't even the earliest occasion of that. * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/mariadb-and-mysql.html#Promp...
In Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0
JdeBP·Apr 22, 2017
As I pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169188 , there's a discussion of MySQL on the systemd-devel mailing list right now. Clearly some people in that discussion are not familiar with MySQL. Clearly some of the people in this discussion are not familiar with MySQL either. To help combat this ignorance, here are some actual systemd units: * https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.1/support-files/ma... -- MariaDB's official systemd service unit, 173 lines long * https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/5.7/scripts/syste... -- MySQL's official systemd service unit, 60 lines long * https://github.com/percona/percona-server/blob/5.7/scripts/s... -- Percona's official systemd service unit, 61 lines long * https://sources.debian.net/src/apache2/2.4.25-3/debian/apach... -- Debian's third party systemd service unit for Ap
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ache2, 15 lines long So these figures that people are pulling out of thin air are erroneous by anywhere from half the actual length to an order of magnitude too small. And, ironically, the Apache systemd service unit is using a System 5 rc shell script under the covers to do all of the work. The apachectl program is in fact a System 5 rc script from 1997, complete with start/stop/restart/status verbs.
In Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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