alt Hacker NewsI don't think your last sentence is fair. Many workloads don't need something like Galera, as standard async replication scales to extreme levels, and you can achieve excellent HA with external orchestration and/or proxies. FOSS MariaDB is definitely not toy-scale only.
Oracle has also been guilty of locking modern table stakes behind the MySQL Enterprise / Heatwave pay gate, such as vector indexes and JS stored procedures. And while they've recently announced more of this stuff will move to FOSS soon, at the same time their response rate to new bug reports has become worse than ever before, which is deeply worrying.
And a couple days ago Oracle announced that they're nonsensically changing their MySQL versioning/LTS naming yet again. So now the way you identify an LTS is "major version is an even-numbered last two digits of a year, while minor version is exactly 4 to represent LTS releases always being in April." So for example MySQL 28.4 will be LTS, but 28.7 and 28.10 are not. But prior to this, 9.7 and 8.4 are LTS, and 8.0 was de facto LTS but now EOL. It's bizarre. I wish I was joking!
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> Many workloads don't need something like Galera [etc...]
This continues the faulty line of thinking that open source is just for hobby-level projects or early startup throwaway infrastructure. So many open-core models rely on this falsehood to rationalize their decisions. It should be possible to run large-scale important Internet things on Open Source code, too, for a variety of reasons.
> such as vector indexes and JS stored procedures
So, the stuff that basically appeals to people chasing the AI dragon, and has zero practical use for 99.999% of developers making real products?
> I wish I was joking!
I wish I could care even a little bit about such minutiae.
> And while they've recently announced more of this stuff will move to FOSS soon, at the same time their response rate to new bug reports has become worse than ever before, which is deeply worrying.
A huge chunk[1] of the MySQL developers were laid off (and also large amounts of QA etc.), so it's not surpising at all that they are struggling to keep the lights on. There are talks about an external group trying to form to take more ownership, but so far, your best bets are MariaDB or Postgres, depending on whether you think MySQL 5.1 was the epitome of relational databases or not.
[1] From what I gather, about 75%. In the first wave.