Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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MySQL's development has significantly declined under Oracle's stewardship, with commit activity dropping sharply in 2025 and staff reductions announced. Oracle conducts all development behind closed doors, rejecting community contributions and treating MySQL as open source only by license, not practice. Technical issues have plagued recent releases, including data corruption bugs, performance regressions of 15%, and difficult upgrade paths. Oracle published 123 CVEs in 2025 with minimal transparency compared to MariaDB's 8. Migration to MariaDB is straightforward for most applications, offering true open source development with active community participation. Major platforms like Wikipedia and 57% of WordPress sites already use MariaDB.

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Jan 15•10m read time•From optimizedbyotto.com

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This is not surprising – Oracle should not be trusted as the steward for open source projects MySQL’s technical decline in recent years Open source is more than ideology: it has very real effects on software security and sovereignty There are options and migrating is easy, just do it