Oracle's nemesis MariaDB releases sleekest seal yet to beta • The Register

No shortage of Oracle nemeses lately

"That "good group" reads like a who's who of tech, with companies such as Google replacing all internal production MySQL servers with MariaDB; Red Hat making it its new storage engine; Fedora making it the default implementation of MySQL in Fedora 19; the foxes over at Mozilla migrating to it; as well as many others.
Version 10 of the database comes with several merged features and functionality from MySQL 5.6, along with enhancements to replication, optimisation, and administration."

Oracle's nemesis MariaDB releases sleekest seal yet to beta • The Register