On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Terry Chay <tchay(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Nice!
The main goal of migrating to MariaDB is not
performance driven. More
so, I think it's in WMF's and the open source
communities interest to
coalesce around the MariaDB Foundation as the best route to ensuring a
truly open and well supported future for mysql derived database technology.
Performance gains along the way are icing on the cake.
If it works out, then at some point we should probably tell the MariaDB
peeos that they can mention that the WMF uses it. :-)
We've been talking to Monty Widenius who visited the WMF office prior to
the Foundation announcement, and are fostering mutual support between the
Wikimedia and MariaDB Foundations. Win-win for the open source community
at large!
-A