[ale] MySQL Cluster

[Mike Harrison]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:

> On 02/17/2012 09:14 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> Given that MySQL is now owned by Oracle and they're already doing unfriendly things with the OEL as opposed to other Linux distros as regards Oracle products I wouldn't trust them to continue playing nice with MySQL.  So if you're making a choice you probably want to look at Postgresql.
>>
>> Unfortunately I've not done clustering with either of them so can't help you.
>>
> A couple of MySQL forks/replacements are Mariadb and Percona. Both are
> compatible with MySQL in fact the person behind MariaDB is original
> designer of MySQL. Both of the projects are FOSS with no commercial
> editions.
>
> I use MariaDB (non clustering) personally.

Maria does not support clustering..

And this is one of those cases where I think the silence I have received
(here and other places..) speaks volumes.. :)