Migrating to MariaDB: Toward an Open Source Database Solution

© William Wood 2019

William WoodMigrating to MariaDBhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3997-1_4

4. Making the Decision

William Wood¹ 

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Pacific, MO, USA

 

This chapter will take us through a summary of the Financial Widgets Plus (FWP) team’s work and culminate with a sample project definition with an executive summary for the team’s presentation in regard to choosing MariaDB as the new DBMS over their existing solution. Even though the raw presentation of the work completed so far speaks for itself, one may find that bringing this all together in a professionally formatted presentation should be the primary goal for any project, much less one with the far-reaching scope of migrating to a completely new database backend for a company’s premier product. ...