<div dir="auto">At the height of Oracle's hostility towards the open source community in 2014 Ubuntu CEO Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 14.04 would keep using MySQL, even after Debian itself (and other distros) switched to MariaDB.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-says-ubuntu-is-sticking-with-mysql">https://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-says-ubuntu-is-sticking-with-mysql</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been running MariaDB everywhere since then (even on Ubuntu via PPA). Our SLURM DB has been using it since then as well. Six years now...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020, 22:21 Bas van der Vlies <<a href="mailto:bas.vandervlies@surfsara.nl">bas.vandervlies@surfsara.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We have a Debian Stretch en Debian Buster cluster and both using MariaDB no problems so far. Version 19.05.5 and we are planning to upgrade to 20.02<br>
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> On 7 May 2020, at 19:41, Dustin Lang <<a href="mailto:dstndstn@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dstndstn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> According to a very quick web search, migrating from MySQL to MariaDB is (very) easy. Does anyone have any counter-experience with Slurm databases?<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> --dustin<br>
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> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:34 PM Christopher Samuel <<a href="mailto:chris@csamuel.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">chris@csamuel.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 5/7/20 6:08 AM, Riebs, Andy wrote:<br>
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> > Alternatively, you could switch to MariaDB; I've been using that for years.<br>
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> Debian switched to only having MariaDB in 2017 with the release of <br>
> Debian 9 (Stretch), as a derivative distro I'm surprised that Ubuntu <br>
> still packages MySQL.<br>
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> I'd second Andy's suggestion.<br>
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> All the best,<br>
> Chris<br>
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> Chris Samuel : <a href="http://www.csamuel.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.csamuel.org/</a> : Berkeley, CA, USA<br>
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