My two cents from beers and tech talks around the industry; a lot of DBAs were put off even trying MariaDB altogether due to the sale to Sun. They felt abandoned after putting the MySQL team on the map to begin with. It was felt the same could happen with MariaDB, so why bother?
I heard from a lot of teams then who planned MySQL migrations to Postgres before the Sun sale to Oracle due to the MySQL sale to Sun.
I like engine=memory tables. Compared to data structures found in programming languages, memory tables are more powerful: arbitrary columns, indices. The DB server solves concurrency with transactions and row-level locks; need B-tree primary key which is not the default for memory engine but easy enough to do at table creation.
I think they save quite an amount of software complexity, delegating these problems to the DB server.
howardYouGood|3 days ago
I heard from a lot of teams then who planned MySQL migrations to Postgres before the Sun sale to Oracle due to the MySQL sale to Sun.
allthetime|3 days ago
Const-me|3 days ago
I think they save quite an amount of software complexity, delegating these problems to the DB server.