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Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5

Posted by timothy on from the sharks-and-jets-typing-furiously dept.

Peetke writes "As we all know Oracle is not the biggest friend to the Open Source Community. Long standing OSS supporter Wikipedia has now moved from an optimized fork of MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5, for both its English and German sites. Wikipedia expects all other languages to follow within a month. Performance-wise, this move has no big implications, but it will ensure our biggest community database will live long and prosper."

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  1. Re:But... But... Why? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Oracle may screw MySQL".

    Is there a reason for this other than ifs, buts and maybes?

    One definition of madness is to try the same thing again and again and keep expecting different results. It's Oracle. You will get screwed.

    --
    SJW n. One who posts facts.