Second, the MySQL and MariaDB implementations of the native JSON column data type are also different. This makes for slight incompatibilities that you will need to navigate if you’re migrating ...

MySQL had been part of Sun Microsystems since 2008, but when Oracle bought Sun in 2010, MySQL co-founder Michael "Monty" Widenius forked the code to a new open source database, MariaDB.

Often driven by technological needs and familiarity to developers and administrators, deciding on a database can be influenced by past experiences and decisions. The goal of this document is to ...

That would mean Fedora might switch over as early as May 2013. In any case, "MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default.

A Google spokesperson said, "Google's MySQL team is in the process of moving internal users of MySQL at Google from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 10.0.

MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus ...

MySQL had been part of Sun Microsystems since 2008, but when Oracle bought Sun in 2010, MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius forked the code to a new open source database, MariaDB.

If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.