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[Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:33:50 +0100, Bjoern Boschman <bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16.02.2012 00:57, Henrik Ingo wrote:
> > Percona Server is like MariaDB in that both of them are compatible 
> > with MySQL and you could do a plug-and-play replacement. Percona 
> > Server is much closer to MySQL (which many think is great), shall
> > I say more focused. MariaDB has more deviation in the code base and
> > also adds more stuff like additional storage engines (which many
> > think is great, especially when you want to play with new
> > features).
> 
> The additional storage engine also applies to percona :-)

We use the name XtraDB to refer to our modified InnoDB (this avoids
confusion and trademark issues). We don't ship any other engines though,
we simply don't see the demand.

-- 
Stewart Smith