Comment by g4m8i7

A lot of the big distros have transitioned to MariaDB already (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad...). Debian probably will soon as well, which will trickle down into Ubuntu probably.

I think there's plenty of room outside Oracle if they were to ever shut down MySQL. I moved to MariaDB, and it really was a drop-in replacement.