Reducing overhead with MariaDB Catalogs

Abstract

Using datacenter and hardware resources efficiently is one of the biggest challenges in IT today. In this presentation I’ll talk about the history of database deployments at Ionos, compare each iterations up and downsides and shed some light on how MariaDB Catalogs can help us to improve our efficiency levels even further.

Christian Roser, IONOS

Working with large scale database environments since 10 years, he has now the technical responsibility for the operating and further development of the database platform at IONOS. He already joined the company during his studies and worked on MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as DBA and engineer. Consolidation, standardization and automation have always been one of his top priorities when designing and building a platform consisting of several thousand database servers hosting milions of databases.