Posted on 5/7/2010, 2:52 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Remember the idea behind renaming Maria, the storage engine? People regularly get confused with Maria the storage engine, and MariaDB the database. We got a whole lot of good names, and here’s a short-listed amount of names (short-listed by Monty Program employees down to about 15), and now its up to YOU to help us choose what the new name should be. Quick, go take the survey.
Voting ends on Friday, July 9, 2010, at 23:59UTC.
The winner will be announced on the first day of OSCON on July 19 2010. The winner walks away with a Meerkat net-top from System76.
Posted on 1/5/2010, 8:27 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
A big congratulations to Ubuntu for the release of 10.04 LTS. While I haven’t had the chance to upgrade, I see everyone on Twitter and in the blogosphere say they are really like the Lucid experience.
A couple of days ago, I made mention that there were VirtualBox images of MariaDB out there. Turns out there were so many downloads, Mark has had to upgrade his Internet connection!
Anyway, to the point: Mark has created Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VM’s with MariaDB 5.1.44 and MariaDB 5.2 BETA. Don’t hesitate to download them, and send feedback.
Have a good weekend playing with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx release, and enjoy using MariaDB on it.
Posted on 27/4/2010, 4:41 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Coming from a great MariaDB contributor, Mark, is:
- MariaDB 5.1.44 / 5.2.0 Beta Binaries for Solaris 10 SPARC, and Debian GNU/Linux SPARC. Mark does a fabulous job of building these binaries, and he does them really quickly. If you’re on the SPARC platform, give it a go. Send some feedback, also.
- Mark has also spent some time developing virtual machines. All you need to get started is download VirtualBox. Mark provides an OpenSolaris 0906 + MariaDB 5.1.44 VM as well as an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS + MariaDB 5.1.42 VM.
- It is expected by the end of this week, when Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is released, Mark will upgrade the image to include MariaDB 5.1.44.
Thanks Mark! This is some fabulous work. Go give his VM’s a try and send feedback. Would you like to see any other VM’s? Any other distributions?
Posted on 2/4/2010, 1:09 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Gentoo
It started with Brian Evans’ github repository, some good instructions on the mailing list for Building MariaDB on Gentoo, to a request for packaging, and guess what? Its now officially in Gentoo! Thanks Brian, and Robin Johnson!
SPARC builds – Debian, Solaris
Mark has now got a MariaDB category on his blog and the interesting things for you to grab are: 5.1.42 binaries for Debian Linux/SPARC and 5.1.42 binaries for Solaris 10/SPARC. Soon, you will see 5.1.44 binaries. Thanks a lot Mark!
Posted on 2/4/2010, 12:00 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Dear MariaDB users,
MariaDB 5.1.44, a new branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches, has been released.
This release is based on MySQL 5.1.44. In includes performance improvements with Maria temporary tables, removal of mutexes and the aim of removing compiler errors is being achieved quite well! For an overview of what’s new in MariaDB 5.1.44, please check out the release notes.
For information on installing MariaDB 5.1.44 on new servers or upgrading to MariaDB 5.1.44 from previous releases, please see the installation guide.
MariaDB is available in source and binary form for a variety of platforms and is available from the download pages
We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, and participation on our mailing list. Find out more about working with the community.
Enjoy!
MariaDB: Community Developed. Feature Enhanced. Backward Compatible.
The NoSQL/relational database debate has been going on for quite some time. MariaDB, like MySQL is relational. And if you read these series of blog posts, you’ll realise that if you use MySQL correctly, you can achieve quite a lot.
- It all starts with Kellan Elliott-McCrea with his introductory post on Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr. Follow the entire series.
- He starts of the series with Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap. Flickr scales using shards, and ticket servers give unique integers to serve as PKs.
- Richard Crowley talks about OpenDNS MySQL abuses. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but it shows MySQL getting the job done.
- Mikhail Panchenko talks about using The Federated engine for his series.
If you’re using the Federated engine, know that MySQL disables FEDERATED by default. In MariaDB 5.1.42, you get FederatedX, which is a maintained fork of FEDERATED, by the author himself! Bugs are fixed, and this is a supported engine, so if you’re using the FEDERATED engine, it might be wise to try out FederatedX.
I’d also like to bring to attention, an interesting essay by Dennis Forbes: Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn’t-Scalable Lie. Monty says: “NoSQL is for very smart people who need a very sharp knife. People who are not capable of mastering SQL should not even attempt to try out NoSQL.”
