I have. So far, I'd call it an upgrade, since most of my database retrieval calls have been going a lot faster since I made the switch.

MariaDB gives a similar performance boost in my experience, but since I run a localhost install on a XAMPP stack, it can be a real hassle making the switch from MySQL to MariaDB.

However, moving up from your current MySQL to MySQL 5.6 shouldn't be an issue and you should get a performance boost out of it.

I can't tell what this would me for a live site, but so far, it works well for me, and you could probably drop in replace the newer version of MySQL over your older version with little difficulty.

Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 00:35:58 -0400 From: kudu@riseup.net To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [MediaWiki-l] MySQL 5.6.x

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Hi,

Has anyone tested MediaWiki with MySQL 5.6.x? I'm aware that Wikimedia now uses MariaDB, but I'm currently stuck with MySQL on Amazon RDS and was wondering whether I should upgrade from 5.5.31 to 5.6.12.

• -Kudu.

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