Mariadb Support?

[velaware]

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL but offers tremendous improvements in performance and speed (based on their website).  As MariaDB is a fork of MySQL I'm curious if Blesta will run on it without any issues?

 

If no one knows I'd be happy to test this on my dev platform and report my results.

[velaware]

As a little bit more info, MariaDB's fork of InnoDB (the engine type Blesta uses for the database) called XtraDB recognizes itself as InnoDB (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-xtradb/) but you can also use the original InnoDB as well via plugin.  So, as an outsider looking in it seems like MariaDB could in fact be a suitable replacement for those running Blesta on a low-end server (i.e.: low-end VPS).

[Tyson]

There are a couple members on the forum that have made posts regarding MariaDB, and have it setup for Blesta with minor difficulty. They've run into a few issues that have since been resolved, but there could still be other issues with the system running on MariaDB vs MySQL. We can't provide much support for MariaDB users, though, as we have no test environment for it.

[cloudrck]

They have fixed the one issue I've experienced with MariaDB. All is well in MariaDB land

[velaware]

  On 3/10/2014 at 3:17 AM, cloudrck said:

They have fixed the one issue I've experienced with MariaDB. All is well in MariaDB land

Notice any performance improvements?

[cloudrck]

  On 3/10/2014 at 3:45 AM, secforus_ehansen said:

Notice any performance improvements?

My database isn't big enough to notice a different between MySQL and MariaDB. They were both about the same speedwise.

[velaware]

  On 3/10/2014 at 3:50 AM, cloudrck said:

My database isn't big enough to notice a different between MySQL and MariaDB. They were both about the same speedwise.

Does MariaDB use less resources compared to MySQL that you can find out?

[cloudrck]

  On 3/10/2014 at 3:50 AM, secforus_ehansen said:

Does MariaDB use less resources compared to MySQL that you can find out?

Out of the  box yes, but they can both be tweaked fairly well.

[Paul]

MariaDB definitely looks promising, time will tell how close they stay with MySQL compatibility-wise. But, if anyone finds an issue with it we'll do our best to correct it.