On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Hogan, Michael C Michael.C.Hogan2@boeing.com wrote:
How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will
remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list of variances seems to be slowly growing. References...
- Compatibility - [[mw:Compatibility]]
- MariaDB support? - [[mw:Topic:R1hqki3kaytylml4]]
- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
Other than [[mw:Compatibility]] on mediawiki.org is there anywhere else
(wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l?
Thank you! Michael
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Mediawiki usually doesnt use new exotic db features. I would be shocked if we dropped support for mysql at any point in the forseeable future unless mysql becomes totally abandoned.
-- brian