Percona / MariaDB

[LampedWeb]

I'm beginning to take a strong dislike to Oracle's handling of their open source projects. I'd like to distance myself from them and I understand Percona and MariaDB provide community driven forks of MySQL.

I'm a part-time server admin, and really don't want to spend my time supporting either of these options myself.

Is cPanel considering, or would consider in the future, supporting either of these forks?

[dibarra]

I too am not happy about Oracle- luckily cPanel gives us Postgres to work with in the meantime. I'd rather wait and see where the community goes before having cPanel jump on a database that might die.

[InterServed]

+1 vote from me for Percona

[eva2000]

bump for +1 for percona in whm

[syslint]

+1 for percona . It is developmed from mysql , It is faster than ordinary mysql. We are using it in big vb websites . Its syntax is same as mysql . You only need to install it and cPanel will work fine with this.

Also it will be good cpanel team have a look into Percona - Experts in MySQL and LAMP Performance

[xanubi]

+1 for percona

[cPanelDavidG]

Just to clarify, everyone here wants both Percona and MariaDB, preferably in such a way that Perconia and MariaDB integrate with one another, correct? I know from MariaDB enthusiasts that these tools are very often paired together in custom deployments, but I just wanted to clarify this potential ambiguity/misunderstanding.

[VeZoZ]

Just to clarify, everyone here wants both Percona and MariaDB, preferably in such a way that Perconia and MariaDB integrate with one another, correct? I know from MariaDB enthusiasts that these tools are very often paired together in custom deployments, but I just wanted to clarify this potential ambiguity/misunderstanding.

I believe the request is asking for the ability to have cPanel install MariaDB rather than MySQL and same idea Percona MySQL builds opposed to MySQL. For Percona you'd be talking about /downloads/ - Builds and releases of the Percona software or specifically

MySQL 5.0: /downloads/Percona-Server-5.0/ - Builds and releases of the Percona software
MySQL 5.1: /downloads/Percona-Server-5.1/ - Builds and releases of the Percona software

You can already run any of these just fine in cPanel. You just remove the cPanel RPM's and install one of these and everything should still work. You then disable cPanel mysql updates and handle the updates yourself. I suppose you could install MySQL any way you want in cPanel as CloudLinux can install one rather than cPanel MySQL as well.

So people are just asking to give the option of what to use. Probably could just do it as a tweak setting of what MySQL you wish to run.

MySQL 5.0, 5.1
MySQL Percona 5.0, 5.1
MariaDB 5.1, 5.2


Only have the option of one of these obviously. Add new versions as available. It adds an extra element of maintaining multiple variations and custom builds of MySQL. I think before this is even considered PostgreSQL should get the same treatment as MySQL as far as support.

[eva2000]

exactly, we want cpanel by default to switch out mysql.com rpms for mariadb and/or percona rpms to be installed out of the box, upgraded to etc

• MySQL 5.1.x, 5.5.x
• Percona 5.1.x, 5.5.x in beta
• Maria 5.1.x, 5.2.x

[the_bobara]

+1 for both Percona and MariaDB in Tweak Settings or in Mysql upgrade section.

[ct2k7]

I would be in support of being able to use Percona.

[cPanelDavidG]

MariaDB and Percona are two separate alternatives to MySQL, so I am splitting this thread so demand for each is easier to track.

[cPanelDavidG]

If you support Percona and have not already vocalized your support for it, please visit: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/percon...nt-190482.html

If you support MariaDB and have not already vocalized your support for it, please visit: http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/mariad...nt-190492.html

You are welcome to support both MariaDB and Percona.

I am closing and archiving this thread as further discussion about this should occur on those threads instead.