Howto: Install MariaDB on Debian 7/Wheezy

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, which is true open source and community maintained. MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement for MySQL. It includes the XtraDB storage engine as a replacement for InnoDB. Its lead developer is Michael Widenius (also known as “Monty”), the founder of MySQL. Recently, many popular Linux distributions replaced MySQL with MariaDB as default database server. Fedora version => 19, Archlinux and OpenSuse. Moreover Wikipedia moved to MariaDB and Mozilla also uses MariaDB....

May 5, 2013