CentOS 7 stopped shipping MySQL as it is owned by Database company Oracle, many doubt Oracle will use MySQL to sell their Oracle Database. Now CentOS ship with MariaDB. It is created by creator of MySQL. He sold MySQL to Sun Microsystems (creator of Java), later Oracle acquired Sun (and killed it ?).
Luckily for us, MySQL creator have another daughter, Maria, so he named his version of MySQL MariaDB. “My” was name of his first daughter, like father, she won’t be happy with this change.
[root@cloud1 ~]# yum search mysql Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mirror.nac.net * extras: mirrors.advancedhosters.com * updates: mirror.kentdigital.net ============================================================================================ N/S matched: mysql ============================================================================================= MySQL-python.x86_64 : An interface to MySQL akonadi-mysql.x86_64 : Akonadi MySQL backend support apr-util-mysql.x86_64 : APR utility library MySQL DBD driver dovecot-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL back end for dovecot freeradius-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL support for freeradius libdbi-dbd-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL plugin for libdbi mysql-connector-java.noarch : Official JDBC driver for MySQL mysql-connector-odbc.x86_64 : ODBC driver for MySQL perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 : A MySQL interface for Perl php-mysql.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases php-mysqlnd.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases qt-mysql.i686 : MySQL driver for Qt's SQL classes qt-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL driver for Qt's SQL classes qt3-MySQL.i686 : MySQL drivers for Qt 3's SQL classes qt3-MySQL.x86_64 : MySQL drivers for Qt 3's SQL classes redland-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL storage support for Redland rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL support for rsyslog mariadb.x86_64 : A community developed branch of MySQL mariadb-devel.i686 : Files for development of MariaDB/MySQL applications mariadb-devel.x86_64 : Files for development of MariaDB/MySQL applications mariadb-libs.i686 : The shared libraries required for MariaDB/MySQL clients mariadb-libs.x86_64 : The shared libraries required for MariaDB/MySQL clients Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything. [root@cloud1 ~]#
MariaDB is drop in replacement (binary compatible) for MySQL, so nothing to worry about it. Lets install mariadb.
yum install -y mariadb mariadb-server mariadb-devel
With CentOS 7, we don’t have “service mysql start”, instead we need to use systemctl
To start MariaDB, run
systemctl start mariadb
To stop, run
systemctl stop mariadb
