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MariaDB - [ROADMAPPED]

DracoBlue

MariaDB support and optimization for performance would be nice.

Aliysa

Hi DracoBlue, MariaDB is scheduled on our roadmap for April https://enhance.com/resources/article/product-roadmap.

digitalexpanse

+Critical
Surprised this isn't a best practice at this point, we've been using MariaDB for Wordpress sites for 3+ years now.

digitalexpanse

Cool, will review the roadmap, so maybe in a year this will be production ready for us. Also hilarious, I looked at the roadmap last week and when I saw July, I straight up though you stopped rolling out updates, because this is completely backwards if you think about it.

prasad0889

digitalexpanse Isn't MYSQL8 better as compared to MariaDB?

John-P

prasad0889 Isn't MYSQL8 better as compared to MariaDB?

There is a lot less of a performance difference than there was a while ago.

In the benchmarks that we ran internally MariaDB was slightly faster, but really the difference for most sites was tiny.

digitalexpanse

@prasad0889
I can't say I've ever seen it outperform MariaDB for modern WordPress sites with millions of page views monthly. That being said, database performance is often attributed to proper configuration for the application.

necrom

It'd be nice to have the choice, but when it comes to performance the database is toward the end of the list of things we look at.

John-P

necrom It'd be nice to have the choice, but when it comes to performance the database is toward the end of the list of things we look at.

Same thoughts here. Unless your DB is absolutely huge it is not often going to be a major deciding factor in site/app speed.

AdamM

Between MySQL and MariaDB there is no significant difference I think. What we need more is a database cache, such as Redis/KeyDB.

digitalexpanse

Except that we use MariaDB and aren't switching to MySQL8, nor are we taking a hit on performance across 100 million page views just because. So it definitely varies company to company needs wise.