[Opensim-users] Which database?

[Haravikk]

> On 5 Aug 2018, at 20:48, Ethan A. Gardener <eekee57 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> Hullo!  I'm thinking of running a little grid again.  I intend to run it on Linux or FreeBSD.  I had good results with MySQL in the past, but I recall someone saying another database was much better.  I've forgotten the name of this other database already, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Possibly MariaDB? It's what I use 99% of the time as it's a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL with all the same features and better overall performance, plus some neat extra features, though not any I think OpenSim can use (but would love to be corrected if it can!).

Any experience using MySQL is fully applicable to MariaDB, and unless you do anything complex you should notice no difference in terms of how you set it up etc., it even installs the same commands by default, i.e- you can access MariaDB's client with the mysql command, you can backup using mysqldump etc.