Since the Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, a lot of MySQL developers and users moved away from MySQL due to Oracle’s more close-door stance on MySQL development and maintenance. The community-driven outcome of such movement is a fork of MySQL, called MariaDB. Led by original MySQL developers, the development of MariaDB follows the open-source philosophy and makes sure of its binary compatibility with MySQL.
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