The MySQL relational database serves as a back end for millions of websites, and powers millions of non-Internet data-handling applications. In 2009 ownership of MySQL passed to Oracle when it ...

MariaDB never should have happened. Monty Widenius, the founder of both MySQL and MariaDB, made a bundle selling MySQL to Oracle years ago, but he then launched MariaDB to try to return the heart ...

So why make this move since openSUSE will continue to support both? Hrušecký explained, "Well, [I've been] personally using MariaDB since 2010 with a few switches to MySQL and back, so it is ...

Fedora isn't the only one to find MariaDB more attractive in recent months; Wikipedia began moving to MariaDB in late 2012. Therefore, Reznik declared, " We would like to replace MySQL with ...