[Opensim-users] Which database?

[Ethan A. Gardener]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018, at 9:27 PM, Haravikk wrote:
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> > 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.

Thanks! I love drop-in replacements. :)