[Info-vax] MariaDB (Re: OT: what is old is new again?)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/24/2016 3:08 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
> Specifically to MariaDB, while it has some industry acceptance,
> the issue I have with it is similar to some open source offerings
> i.e. no native OpenVMS cluster support. Ok, perhaps someone can
> correct me here, but I believe there is some limited shared
> nothing MariaDB cluster offerings on Linux only.

MariaDB and MySQL have gotten a tremendous market share on
other platforms without it.

And rewriting a database from a failover model to a loadsharing model
is a huge task.

Why spend a lot of money creating a VMS specific fork to support
features that are not strictly needed.

> I would like to see more emphasis on not just getting Open Source
> offerings working on OpenVMS, but also supporting native (shared
> disk) clustering e.g. like the Apache Web Server port (supports
> active-active native clustering).

A web server is very different than a database in this regard.

Arne