Nethub has become an official mirror server of MariaDB which is the first mirror in Hong Kong.
In 2008 Oracle acquired MySQL, after several years Oracle is making MySQL a more closed software project, so that many corporation replaced MySQL with MariaDB.
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL intended to remain free under the GNU GPL, the intent is also to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a “drop-in” replacement capability.
