What's the difference between mysql-server and mysql-community-server?

Question

MySQL

What's the difference between mysql-server and mysql-community-server packages?

Answer 1

Difficult to answer without specifying the OS in question (or specifying a specific repository). But oracle currently has 4 mysql editions: MySQL Standard Edition, MySQL Enterprise Edition, MySQL Cluster CGE and MySQL Community Edition. At the same time, MySQL Community Edition is free, the rest are not. The differences are mainly in "chips interesting for business" (support, license, some plugins). On the regular Internet, under mysql servers, they usually mean the free MySQL Community Edition.
More details here or here (here it is more clearly written, but the page is not official, there may be inaccuracies).
Mysql-community-server seems to have been sorted out, and the mysql-server package is most likely a metapackage on which dependencies are placed (if there are, for example, mysql and percona in turnips, then in order not to be tied in a specific implementation, they do something like this: the mysql-community package -server installs the mysql-server package according to dependencies, the percona-community-server package also installs the mysql-server package according to dependencies. -server, but the same metapackage mysql-server Depending on the OS and the package manager, there may be nuances, but usually something like this).
Threat, as you understand all of the above - an attempt to guess, the reality may turn out to be completely different, but it is impossible to find out without understanding which packages in which OS we are talking about, at least until those telepaths come out of vacation.