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Comparing MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server
| MySQL | Percona | MariaDB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Oracle Corp. (former MySQL AB) |
Percona LLC | MariaDB Corp. (former SkySQL) |
| FromDual support |  |
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| GA versions | 5.5, 5.6 | 5.5, 5.6 | 5.5, 10.0 |
| Galera Cluster | supported | supported | supported |
| License | GPL, commercial (OEM!) | GPL | GPL, LGPL, BSD |
| Ancestry | Mother of all | Branch of actual release | Fork of MySQL 5.5 |
| Storage Engines | Archive, Blackhole, CSV, Federated (disabled), InnoDB (default), Memory, MyISAM | Archive, Blackhole, CSV, Federated (disabled), InnoDB (default), Memory, MyISAM, TokuDB | Archive, Aria (crash-safe MyISAM), Blackhole, Cassandra, CSV, FederatedX, InnoDB (default), Memory, MyISAM, OQGraph (Graph-SE), TokuDB |
| Storage Engine enforcement | yes | ||
| Fulltext search | MyISAM: yes InnoDB: yes |
MyISAM: yes InnoDB: yes |
MyISAM: yes Aria: yes InnoDB: yes, Sphinx-SE |
| Partitions | available | available | available |
| Plugins | Auth, Auth Socket, MemcacheD, SemiSync Repl | Auth PAM, Auth Socket, Handlersocket, MemcacheD, SemiSync Repl | Auth PAM, Auch Socket, Connect SE, Handlersocket, Sequence, Sphinx, Spider, QueryCache Info, SemiSync Repl |
| MemcacheD | available | ||
| virtual Columns | Since 5.7.6 | since 5.2 | |
| Performance | |||
| General | All 3 branches/forks have roughly the same performance. They mostly distinguish in features not in performance. | ||
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA |
enabled (5.6) | enabled (5.6), userstats | enabled (10.0) |
| Thread Pool | 5.5, commercial plugin | 5.5 and 5.6 | 5.1 - 5.3 (old), 5.5 (new) |
DML EXPLAIN |
5.6 | 5.6? | |
JSON EXPLAIN |
5.6 | 5.6? | |
| Optimizer Trace | 5.6 | 5.6? | |
| Table elimination | available | ||
| Security | |||
| Roles | since 10.0.5 | ||
| Password expiration | since 5.6 | since 5.6 | since 10.0? |
| Password validation | Plugin since 5.6.6 | Plugin since 5.6 | Worklog, comes in 10.1/10.2 |
| Password complexity | commercial? | ||
| PAM Authentication | MySQL 5.5, commercial plugin | since 5.5 | since 5.2 |
| Backup | mysqldump, mysqlbackup | mysqldump, XtraBackup | mysqldump, XtraBackup |
| Audit Plugin | 5.5 a, b MyAfee Audit Plugin |
5.5 and 5.6 MyAfee Audit Plugin |
5.5 MyAfee Audit Plugin |
| Slow Query Log | available | available, improved | available |
| Replication | |||
| Master/Slave | |
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| multi-Source Replication | MySQL 5.7-labs | unknown | MariaDB 10.0 |
| parallel Replication | MySQL 5.6 (per Schema) | Percona 5.6 (per Schema) | MariaDB 10.0 (per Instance!) |
| GTID | MySQL style | MySQL style | MariaDB style (incompatibility!) |
| MySQL | Percona | MariaDB | |