There’s been a lot of buzz about MariaDB lately. Within the OpenShift Community, we’ve seen quite a bit of uptake since making the new MariaDB cartridge available for OpenShift. Recently, Fedora 19 switched to MariaDB, and that’s usually a good hint of what’s to come in the next RHEL release (although there's no official announcement yet). MariaDB is basically a drop-in replacement for MySQL, one