MariaDB® Corporation, the company behind the fastest growing open source database, today announced that MariaDB Server replaces MySQL as the default in Debian 9, a popular Linux distribution.

By default, MySQL only exposes itself to the localhost interface—meaning ... One very common practice is to create a username that matches the database name and has privileges only on that ...

By default, MySQL supports three database engines: ISAM, MyISAM, and HEAP. Two other types, InnoDB and Berkley (BDB), ... The name of the database engine is in the Type field.

Default Database (optional): The name of one of your databases found on the MySQL server, which can be listed from the MySQL console with the query SHOW DATABASES;.

Red Hat's newest enterprise Linux takes one giant step forward to its release and shifts from MySQL to MariaDB for its database management system needs.

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released. According to news from the Red Hat summit which concludes in ...