INSTALL MARIADB ALONG WITH MYSQL IN CENTOS
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. You can use the link to know more about MariaDB and it's features. If you want to try MariaDB without losing MySQL, then here is the tutorial for running MariaDB alongside MySQL. Let's start with the steps to install Mariadb along with Mysql Download the latest version (mariadb-10.0.20-linux-i686.tar.gz - as of writing this article) from here and extract the files in /opt directory. Create a directory for storing the mariadb data [root@knackforge opt]# mkdir mariadb-data Create symlinks from mariadb-10.0.20-linux-i686 to mariadb [root@knackforge opt]# ln -s mariadb-10.0.20-linux-i686 mariadb [root@knackforge opt]# ls -al total 32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 24 10:06 mariadb -> mariadb-10.0.20-linux-i686 drwxr-xr-x 12 mariadb mariadb 4096 Jun 24 10:05 mariadb-10.0.20-linux-i686 drwxr-xr-x 9 mariadb mariadb ...