MariaDB 5.5 comes with RHEL7. As we migrate our web applications to RHEL7, I am curious what others are doing. As I see it we have four choices:
Use the stock MariaDB 5.5, which is currently called previous stable release by the MariaDB Foundation. You know Red Hat will support this thing until 2024.
Use "real" MySQL from Oracle. Ugh.
Use MariaDB packages to get MariaDB 10.0, the "current stable release".
Spend a year porting everything to PostgreSQL.
Which horse are you choosing to ride? I like long-term stability but it galls me to choose (1) because it's already essentially a dead product.
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