I have been reading this exchange in view of other major deployments, where database selection is key, and MariaDB, with its truly open concept, growing support and user base, plus ever improving scalability are key.
MySQL is not closed source, but dual-licensed, so if you want to scale up, you have to pay. In this regard, all the above comments that are highly critical of the Ghost team’s choice to stick to MySQL are appropriate, future-proof and by no means fallacious!
Sorry, but with this move Ghost is, quite simply, off the table. Little wonder, it never made it into the FreeBSD ports!
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