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		donatj on June 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy us... I'd say give MariaDB a try. It does everything MySQL does, fully compatibly without the guilt of supporting Oracle.

falcolas on June 29, 2016 [–]

Using MySQL does not support Oracle, unless you buy their support packages. If anything, it's a cost center to them.

That said, I do prefer the PerconaDB packages myself, but that's because they are a pure superset of the core MySQL, and improvements to MySQL are improvements to PerconaDB.

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