{"id":2617,"date":"2012-12-31T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:30:51","slug":"a-few-great-weeks-for-mariadb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/31\/a-few-great-weeks-for-mariadb","title":{"rendered":"A few great weeks for MariaDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/mariadb.org\/\">MariaDB<\/a> has had a great few weeks recently and the timeline of these events are important.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>27 November 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/dedicated-server\/hosting\/prweb10172071.htm\">WiredTree Adds MariaDB for Faster MySQL Database Performance<\/a>\u00a0(well worth reading their motivations to switch)<\/li>\n<li>29 November 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mariadb.org\/monty-program-skysql-release-the-mariadb-client-library-for-c-and-mariadb-client-library-for-java-applications\/\">Monty Program &amp; SkySQL release the MariaDB Client Library for C &amp; Java<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4 December 2012 &#8211; MariaDB Foundation is announced, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/open-source-mariadb-a-mysql-fork-challenges-oracle-7000008311\/\">ZDNet coverage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>mid-December 2012 &#8211; Wikimedia Foundation starts migrating Wikipedia to MariaDB, not for any other reason besides the fact that the Foundation was announced (more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/wikipedia-moving-from-mysql-to-mariadb-7000008912\/\">ZDNet coverage<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, there have been rumors that the client libraries are just rip-offs or relicensed. They are not. They&#8217;ve been in works for customers for several years now (yes, Monty Program does need to pay the bills), and there are many a feature difference. This will be addressed next week to ensure that people know what they&#8217;re getting.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been rumors that the foundation was announced with regards to the connectors. Wrong again. Connectors were announced first, foundation came later (see timeline above). You don&#8217;t do these things in a span of one week, the talk for the foundation has been going on for months. I should know, as alongside Monty &amp; Rasmus, I&#8217;ve been somewhat involved.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that we need better communications (remember to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mariadb.dbms\">like us on facebook<\/a>, follow us on twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mariadb\">@mariadb<\/a>), and we&#8217;re working on it. Its also that time of year when people love to take vacations (I am one of them). All that said, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mariadb.org\/\">http:\/\/blog.mariadb.org\/<\/a> closely as that&#8217;s the official channel for all things MariaDB.<\/p>\n<p>2012 has been a great year for MariaDB in general, as the project grows, we get more coverage (see <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.askmonty.org\/en\/news-reports-related-to-mariadb\/\">news reports<\/a>), unparalleled downloads thanks to our 5.5-series being released, and our expanding product lines. I can forsee 2013 being even more exciting. Thank you all for an amazing 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Happy new year and here&#8217;s to a great 2013!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think MariaDB has had a great few weeks recently and the timeline of these events are important. 27 November 2012 &#8211; WiredTree Adds MariaDB for Faster MySQL Database Performance\u00a0(well worth reading their motivations to switch) 29 November 2012 &#8211; Monty Program &amp; SkySQL release the MariaDB Client Library for C &amp; Java 4 December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1064,23],"tags":[46,474,56,1052,1477,988,1264,1476,872],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mariadb-databases","category-mysql","tag-c","tag-hosting","tag-java","tag-mariadb","tag-mariadb-foundation","tag-planet-mysql","tag-skysql","tag-wikimedia-foundation","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}