Colin Charles - Understanding the MySQL Database ecosystem in 2018: CentOS Dojo, Brussels, 2018
Channel: CentOS
Date: 08/02/2018

Colin Charles - Understanding the MySQL Database ecosystem in 2018
MySQL is unique in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing two branches of the popular opensource database: Percona Server and MariaDB. It also spawned a fork: Drizzle. You're a busy DBA having to maintain a mix of this. Or you're a CIO planning to choose one branch. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk.

MySQL is a unique adult in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing a branch and fork of the popular opensource database: Percona Server and MariaDB Server.

You're a busy DBA thinking about having to maintain a mix of this. Or you're a CIO planning to choose one branch over another. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk. Also covered is a deep-dive into what feature differences exist between MySQL/Percona Server/MariaDB Server.

A base blog post to get started: https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/

A talk from the CentOS Dojo in Brussels, 2018 - https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2018