Author: Kaj Arnö
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Selecting the right database
How do you select a database in practice? How do you pretend to select it? And, if you want to be serious, how do you select it logically?
Those are the key questions I dug into, during my keynote last week at Percona Live Online.
For those who feel they don’t want to listen to the entire 30 minute video of the presentation, I have compiled a number of entry points for you below:
- 0:23 Silly hat meme, “Teknologmössa”
- 2:19 Agenda
- 2:43 Choosing a database in practice
- 3:59 Pretending to choose a database
- 5:00 Triggers for making a fresh choice
- 5:51 Monetary impulses
- 7:53 Database lifecycle impulses
- 10:07 MariaDB 5.5 on Github
- 11:24 Framework for database choice: 1. Technology 2. Business 3. Ethics
- 13:49 Technology questions within framework
- 15:21 NoSQL in MariaDB – native JSON support
- 15:41 “Non-relational persistent data considered evil”
- 18:30 “Closed source databases considered evil”
- 18:41 DBS Bank migrated off Oracle to MariaDB 10.3
- 19:47 Choosing a database logically
- 19:57 “This is a sensitive topic”
- 20:25 Picking Postgres vs picking MySQL/MariaDB
- 21:24 Picking MariaDB vs picking MySQL
- 21:54 Questions meant to help you make the right choice
- 22:32 The importance of presence in Linux distributions
- 22:50 The release model: the importance of separating feature releases from bug fix releases
- 23:28 Business questions within framework
- 23:54 Controlling the roadmap of the database
- 24:46 Ethical questions within framework
- 25:30 Comparing Planet MySQL and Planet MariaDB blacklisting and whitelisting
- 26:27 Hats off to Oracle for taking care of MySQL much better than I had thought
- 26:58 Hats off to Percona for helping to keep MySQL alive
- 27:13 Ethical questions: attitude to openness
- 27:59 Ethical questions: governance
- 28:01 MariaDB Corporation
- 28:18 MariaDB Foundation
- 28:43 Checks and balances in governance
- 29:02 Backwards Compatibility, data formats not changing
- 29:35 Promoting health: Solstice Run 20 June 2020 – let’s do some running!
- 30:29 Concluding words: We need your help to make your path of least resistance point towards MariaDB Server
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Planet MariaDB underwent liberal facelift
Planet MariaDB has been reworked from scratch, getting a new instance with the same look and feel as the rest of mariadb.org.
Three news items, related to that: One bad, one neutral, one good. I’m saving the good one for last, as I hope you will like it.
Bad news: The old Planet had five different RSS feeds, we now have only one. We maintain the format changes only on one RSS feed, which means that some of you will […]
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MariaDB 5.5 R.I.P.
MariaDB 5.5.68, coming soon, is the final MariaDB 5.5 release. After that, no more security patches. But the source code remains available on GitHub.
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Join the Solstice Run Sat 20 June 2020
Runners and not-yet-runners: join colleagues and friends for the Summer Solstice Sakila Run 2020! This gives energy and emotional closeness in times of physical distancing.
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Congratulations on SkySQL, the DBaaS offering!
We congratulate MariaDB Corporation on their release of SkySQL, a DBaaS offering for MariaDB Server. A big step!
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Heads up: Renewing MariaDB Downloads
Time to renew downloads.mariadb.org! We are embarking on a long project. A large part of our user base mainly interacts with us through downloading new versions. Renewing MariaDB Downloads is the biggest-impact project of all of 2020, for that part of our user base.
Projects like this often get launched when external and internal impulses coincide. Our users have asked for a more consistent, simpler user experience. Advanced users would like a programmatic interface (a.k.a. REST API) for part of […]
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Life after this
On Monday, I sent out an email to the staff of MariaDB Foundation. In the hope that my thinking is also applicable for someone else, here’s a slightly edited excerpt:
My email to our staff
For an unknown amount of time, we will live under exceptional circumstances. Yet, there will be life both during and after the Corona pandemic. With this email, I want to share my view on how Corona affects our organisation, on how we sustain life during […]