Can anybody shed some light on why they're still using MySQL instead of MariaDB? MariaDB is supposed to be "ensuring drop-in replacement capability" with MySQL[1].<p>From what I gathered, the main reason people would want to move over to MariaDB is a concern over the Oracle licensing of MySQL, which prompted some of the original MySQL developers to create the MariaDB community fork.<p>I'm asking this question more from a greenfield perspective rather than as a continuation/expansion of an existing MySQL deployment.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB</a>