MySQL on Mesos: today's database meets tomorrow's datacenter

  • Can anybody shed some light on why they're still using MySQL instead of MariaDB? MariaDB is supposed to be "ensuring drop-in replacement capability" with MySQL[1].

    From what I gathered, the main reason people would want to move over to MariaDB is a concern over the Oracle licensing of MySQL, which prompted some of the original MySQL developers to create the MariaDB community fork.

    I'm asking this question more from a greenfield perspective rather than as a continuation/expansion of an existing MySQL deployment.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB