MariaDB

Inspired by KP's post, here's how to install MariaDB on Centos.

For those interested, MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL that is (supposedly) 100% compatible with MySQL.

Considering the uncertain future of the MySQL project and the general attitude of Oracle, it's definitely worth a shot to give a try and test it out in your dev/test environment.

First, let's assume you use yum (if you're installing from source, I don't think you really need any help there).

Create a new repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (in my example it's for mariadb 5.5 and centos 6 64bits)

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64 gpgcheck=1 EOF
import the GPG keys:

rpm --import http://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB

then just install it by running:

yum install MariaDB-Server