Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Difference never the less and difference in behavior ( which mariadbs > own benchmarking on their website proof ) which means every server tweak > that has been done for the mysql host has to be redone to take whatever > changes and features mariadb introduces. MySQL also evolves. 5.6 is already very different from 5.5. You're going to have to update your benchmarking for new releases no matter whether they're called "MySQL" or "MariaDB". They're both updated versions of what you use now, with new features, new optimizations, and hopefully fewer bugs. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel