{"id":3048,"date":"2015-02-01T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2015-02-01T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:17:28","slug":"mariadb-turns-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/02\/01\/mariadb-turns-5","title":{"rendered":"MariaDB turns 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stopped working on MySQL at Sun Microsystems in late 2009 (after a lengthy period of garden leave), to join Monty Program Ab, and was greatly anticipating a MariaDB release that we could take to market. The first GA release of MariaDB came out February 1 2010 – MariaDB 5.1.42<\/a>. Today is MariaDB Server\u2019s 5th birthday<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t even want to call it GA back then \u2013 we referred to it as a \u201cstable\u201d release. We didn\u2019t make our own builds because we figured source code tarballs were good enough; so builds were made and hosted at OurDelta. It took some months (around August 2010) when we moved<\/a> release notes to the Knowledgebase (which you\u2019ll notice has moved from kb.askmonty.org to its current location) from the old front page wiki install that we had at askmonty.org.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t go to the first company meeting in Malaga due to having the chickenpox, so my first meeting<\/a> was the one we did in Reykjavik, Iceland. We did it towards the end of February 2010, and planned it literally in a month – maybe a celebration that we brought 5.1 to market on time, and also to plan 5.2.<\/p>\n

Speaking of companies, we were Monty Program Ab (professionally this quickly became MariaDB Services Ab), then SkySQL Ab (via merger), and finally MariaDB Corporation Ab (via re-branding). Shortly before the SkySQL Ab merger, we even have the MariaDB Foundation appear.<\/p>\n

Anyway, what have we released?\u00a0MariaDB 5.1<\/a>, MariaDB 5.2<\/a>, MariaDB 5.3<\/a>, MariaDB 5.5<\/a>, MariaDB 10.0<\/a>, MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5 & 10.0<\/a>, a special MariaDB 5.5 with TokuDB build and a special MariaDB with FusionIO improvements build. To boot, we also have three client libraries (connectors, if you must): C, Java, and ODBC.<\/p>\n

So 5 major server releases<\/strong> (7 if you count the Galera series), and we\u2019re now working on MariaDB 10.1<\/a>. I count 88 releases of the server<\/strong> across various versions (with breakdowns: 9 alphas, 11 betas, 7 release candidates and 61 GAs). We\u2019ve had 23 Galera releases and 15 releases for the various client libraries.<\/p>\n

We are shipping in all major Linux and BSD distributions<\/strong>. In many, we are even the default<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This birthday is a nice time to look back at our achievements, but also to remind ourselves to not rest on our laurels and continue to focus on growth. The last sanctioned press release<\/a> talks of over 2 million users<\/strong> globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thank you to all our users. Thank you to all the contributors and developers. Here\u2019s to a lot more adoption, growth, releases and technology improvements!<\/p>\n

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