Consolidating MariaDB project tools
It is not a secret that we’ve been kicking the tires and playing with JIRA for project management. After using it since the beginning of the year most of us like the feel of it and we’ve decided that...
View ArticleExplanation on MariaDB 10.0
In end of May I told about the numbering plans for the next version of MariaDB in the blog post What comes in between MariaDB now and MySQL 5.6?. We received quite a lot of feedback and criticism on...
View ArticleMariaDB Galera Cluster Alpha immediately available
Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster! With this release, we’re addressing the numerous requests we’ve received over the past few months for a MariaDB-based Galera...
View ArticleMariaDB Directions
Infor announced this week, that they will provide open source database alternatives to some of their products. MariaDB has been chosen, tested, and certified by Infor to be the open source database of...
View ArticleMaking it easier to follow and participate in MariaDB development
In June, I told about the consolidation of the MariaDB project tools. The final piece of this consolidation, to report bugs in the MariaDB project tracking tool called JIRA has now been finalized. Bug...
View ArticleMonty Program & SkySQL release the MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB...
Connectors now available to the MySQL® community as part of the MariaDB open source project Helsinki – November 29, 2012 – Monty Program, the home of MariaDB, owned by MySQL®-database-creator Monty...
View ArticleMariaDB Foundation to Safeguard Leading Open Source Database
Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson announce MariaDB Foundation Leading organizations pledge EUR1M to launch not-for-profit organization Further sponsors sought; Board elections...
View ArticleMySQL® & Cloud Database Solutions Days with Monty Widenius, the “father of...
The SkySQL and MariaDB Roadshow Comes to Germany: Stuttgart 25 January 2013, 9.00-16.00, Sodexo STEP / Engineering Park Hamburg 1 February 2013, 9.00-16.00, Quality Ambassador Hotel SkySQL and Monty...
View ArticleMariaDB 10.0 and MySQL 5.6
In May of last year I blogged about MariaDB 10.0 for the first time. We received some feedback, digested it, and I further explained MariaDB 10.0. Now, with the first Alpha of MariaDB 10.0 out and a...
View ArticleWhat does MariaDB 10.0.1 include – available now
First, congratulations Oracle on the GA of MySQL 5.6! Well done! In this post I walkthrough the features of the first two alpha versions of MariaDB 10.0. The first, 10.0.0-alpha, which was made...
View ArticleMariaDB 10.0 Beta launched – an important milestone
There has been a lot of discussion about MariaDB 10.0 throughout the whole year. When will it be released, what will it include, what is the focus on MariaDB going forward, etc? My feeling is that...
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Node.js, MariaDB and GIS
The availability of the node.js binding for MariaDB’s non-blocking client library together with the GIS capabilities of MariaDB inspired me to make an example of using node.js and MariaDB to import...
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jQuery and GIS distance in MariaDB
I’ve continued building on my MariaDB GIS and node.js example application that I wrote about two weeks back, https://blog.mariadb.org/node-js-mariadb-and-gis/. The application shows how to load GPX...
View ArticleAn update on the MariaDB Audit Plugin and a new version of it
I’m happy to announce that a new version of the MariaDB Audit Plugin is available. Version 1.1.5 can be downloaded here. As you can see the Audit Plugin is available from SkySQL, who has developed the...
View ArticleMariaDB and WebScaleSQL
On Thursday MySQL technology saw a huge boost. It’s hard for anyone now to argue that MySQL isn’t in the game of extreme scalability and performance, which some NoSQL vendors have been using as a...
View ArticleThe MariaDB Foundation Announces General Availability of MariaDB 10
Best MariaDB ever hits the streets – MariaDB 10 innovations developed with Google, SkySQL & Fusion-IO London, United Kingdom – 31 March 2014 – The MariaDB Foundation, an independent body which...
View ArticleDotdeb repository problems with MariaDB 5.5 (solution)
Dotdeb is a repository currently targeting Debian and Ubuntu, providing a nice set of packages for LAMP servers. Recently, MySQL 5.6 was added to the dotdeb repository. On the surface, this is a very...
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Crunching XML files with MariaDB
In January I wrote my first post about node.js and MariaDB . In February I continued with a second post about using jQuery and some GIS calculations. Now it is time for the third and this time the main...
View ArticleMariaDB moves development to Github
Today marks a milestone in terms of the MariaDB project – going forward, the MariaDB project plans to use Github and git for source code management. The migration happens from Launchpad and the bzr...
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MariaDB hugged Helsinki
MariaDB Roadshow Helsinki One could say that MariaDB originates from Finland’s capital Helsinki. In fact so does MySQL. It was in the Helsinki area that MySQL saw daylight. It was here that Monty...
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