Does anyone have a good comparison between MariaDB 10.x and MySQL 8.0? Also, whe...

morgo · on Feb 25, 2017

Author here (and product manager for MySQL).

We do not have a date yet for MySQL 8.0, but it is coming closer. We are on a ~2-3 year release cycle with 5.7 released Oct 2015.

Many of the features of this guide are now specific to MySQL. MariaDB diverged from MySQL 5.5 (2010).

VintageCool · on Feb 25, 2017

We're only considering upgrading to 5.7 in production now, so I'd guess that 5.8/8.0 is still 2-3 years from being production-ready.