[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 CMS and MariaDB

[Christian Platt]

Hi Micheal,

we just setup some T3 4.7 to 6.2 on CentOS based MariaDB

Actually there is only a warning that the verison of the client differs minor from Server. 
Nothing else. Works just fine

Christian



Am 17.12.2014 um 12:05 schrieb Michael Schams <typo3.lists at 2014.trash.schams.net>:

> Thanks Markus, thanks Stephan, for confirming by assumptions :-)
> 
> Good to know, that there should not be any issues. Truth is, we do not plan to switch our servers to MariaDB at this point in time, but one of our clients (who does the hosting himself) wants to do exactly that.
> 
> Reading your replies to my post, we are on the safe side and I don't need to stop him :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Michael
> 
> On 15/12/14 20:07, Stephan Großberndt wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> our company does not have a single MySQL instance anymore since ages (I
>> think since MariaDB 5.1) - we use MariaDB for all out sites without DBAL
>> for production in 4.5 to 6.2 instances. I've had no problems at all,
>> neither at migrating nor using, only performance gain :-)
>> Since its a binary replacement on TYPO3 side there is nothing to change.
>> Some of the Server-Variables are different and also there are more to
>> allow better tuning, but if you use your current my.ini it will work as
>> well and without tuning likely be faster already.
>> 
>> Do the switch, it's easy and worth it!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Stephan
>> 
>> Am 15.12.2014 um 08:31 schrieb Markus Klein:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> Since MariaDB is a very straight fork of MySQL you don't need DBAL at
>>> all.
>>> TYPO3 does not even recognize you're running on MariaDB.
>>> My Dev-Instances run on it since a year or more, no issues so far, so
>>> it looks pretty safe to use it.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Markus Klein
>>> TYPO3 CMS Active Contributors Team Member
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:typo3-english-
>>>> bounces at lists.typo3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schams
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 8:10 AM
>>>> To: TYPO3 English
>>>> Subject: [TYPO3-english] TYPO3 CMS and MariaDB
>>>> 
>>>> Hi!
>>>> 
>>>> I am interested in your experience and your opinion, how TYPO3 CMS works
>>>> (or does not work) with MariaDB and/or what we should be aware of in
>>>> such
>>>> a scenario.
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that MariaDB is in fact a fork of MySQL, developed by
>>>> original
>>>> MySQL-developers, who aim to maintain high compatibility with MySQL.
>>>> Personally, I do not have a problem with MariaDB and my experience
>>>> with it
>>>> as a MySQL replacement is pretty good. It is also shipped with CentOS
>>>> out-of-
>>>> the-box as far as I know. I also assume, MariaDB should fully support
>>>> TYPO3's
>>>> DBAL.
>>>> 
>>>> So, I wonder, if there are any arguments against it or something I
>>>> should
>>>> know or consider? :-)
>>>> 
>>>> This question in more in general, but in our specific case, it will be a
>>>> TYPO3 CMS 6.2 LTS instance that should use a contemporary version of
>>>> MariaDB.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Michael
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