The MariaDB Foundations has had 2 projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2018, of which one we deemed successful. Teodor Niculescu (teodorvicentiuniculescu@gmail.com)’s work was part of an effort to improve MariaDB’s query optimiser by providing faster histogram collection using equal-width histograms. His project is not yet in a release worthy state, yet we are […]
Read MoreMy first week, Looking Forward
First of all, thank you for your warm words of welcome – coming from so many people across different media, I think this is a very positive sign for working with the organisations and individuals within the MariaDB community. Regardless of the situation, a change like this, or actually the person that comes in, is […]
Read MoreMariaDB 10.3.10 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.10, the latest stable release in the MariaDB 10.3 series. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 10.3.10 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.3? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Contributors to MariaDB 10.3.10 Alexander Barkov (MariaDB Corporation) Alexey […]
Read MoreHello World from the new MariaDB Foundation CEO: Arjen Lentz
It’s both my pleasure and honour to write this post. Quite a few of you will know (of) me, but since that’s not necessarily the case I’ll try and make this a quick intro, as well as laying out some aspects of my thoughts and plans for the near future. Who is Arjen? A long […]
Read MoreMariaDB 10.2.18 and MariaDB Connector/Node.js 2.0.0 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.18, the latest stable release in the MariaDB 10.2 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/Node.js 2.0.0, the second alpha release of the new 100% JavaScript non-blocking MariaDB client for Node.js, compatible with Node.js 6+. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB […]
Read MoreMariaDB Foundation CEO steps down
The time has come for me, Otto Kekäläinen, after serving as the CEO of the MariaDB Foundation since January 2015, to step down. The board has already quietly been searching for a new CEO for some months, but no contract has been signed as of yet, so if you are interested in the position, please […]
Read MoreImproved MariaDB performance using Shannon Systems PCIe and atomic writes
We recently had a chance to test how the Shannon Direct-IO PCIe Flash G3i devices improves the performance of MariaDB. Anybody who cares about I/O performance has noticed that PCIe drives have become readily available in recent years and that they are significantly faster than normal SSD drives connected to the traditional SATA port (not to […]
Read MoreMariaDB 10.1.36 and MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.7, Connector/J 2.3.0 and Connector/ODBC 2.0.18 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.1.36, the latest stable release in the MariaDB 10.1 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.7, MariaDB Connector/J 2.3.0 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.18, the latest stable MariaDB Connector releases. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 10.1.36 Release Notes Changelog What […]
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