MariaDB 5.5.57 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.57. This is a stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 5.5.57

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

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MariaDB 10.2.7 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.7. This is a stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 10.2.7

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

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MariaDB 10.1.25 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.25, MariaDB Connector/J 2.0.3, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.6.2. See the release notes and changelogs for details.

Download MariaDB 10.1.25

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator


Download MariaDB Connector/J 2.0.3

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J


Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.6.2

Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J

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Embrace the Community, Fly the Open Source Dream

This article is by the Tencent Game DBA Team, and has been translated from the original.

Tencent Game DBA Team (the DBA Team for short) has been serving the game business for a number of years. The mission of the DBA Team is to provide stable and efficient online storage services for Tencent Games. As the storage requirements from the game business evolve, we keep extending features of our database and improving its performance. We spared no effort to provide reliable, scalable and performant database solutions.

We currently maintain several products:

  • TenDB: the MySQL branch maintained by the DBA team.

Duel: gdb vs. linked lists, trees, and hash tables

My first encounter with the gdb command duel was on some old IRIX about 15 years ago. I immediately loved how convenient it was for displaying various data structures during MySQL debugging, and I wished Linux had something similar. Later I found out that Duel was not something IRIX specific, but a public domain patch for gdb 4.6 written in ’93 by Michael Golan. Unfortunately, it never got into gdb (for licensing reasons, so I’ve heard). Now the gdb 8 is out, and the patch, obviously doesn’t apply. Instead of fixing the patch, I’ve re-implemented Duel in Python, using gdb Python API and the Arpeggio parser. …

Debian 9 released with MariaDB as the only MySQL variant

The Debian project has today announced their 9th release, code named “Stretch”. This is a big milestone for MariaDB, because the release team decided to ship and support only one MySQL variant in this release, and MariaDB was chosen over MySQL.

This is prominently mentioned in the press release about Debian 9 and more information can be found in the Debian release notes. We have also written an article in the Knowledge Base about MySQL to MariaDB migration in Debian. Everything has been designed to work so that the upgrade from MySQL 5.5 in Debian 8 to MariaDB 10.1 in Debian 9 should be automatic and smooth. …

Tencent Cloud Becomes a Platinum Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation

The MariaDB Foundation today announced that Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing service provided by Tencent, has become its platinum sponsor. The sponsorship will help the Foundation ensure continuous collaboration amongst stakeholders within the MariaDB ecosystem, to drive adoption and serve the ever-growing community of users and developers.

Tencent Cloud has already sponsored the MariaDB Foundation by volunteering Bin Cheng, a developer specialized in replication and InnoDB.

The MariaDB Foundation is also sponsored by Tencent Game DBA team and Tencent TDSQL, both part of different business groups under Tencent. Within Tencent, there are many tailored versions of MySQL and MariaDB. …

New MariaDB Foundation staff member sponsored by Tencent Cloud: Bin Cheng

The MariaDB Foundation is happy to announce that a new staff member, Bin Cheng, has started working as a Senior Developer of MariaDB. Bin’s work is sponsored by Tencent Cloud, and he also holds the title of Expert Engineer at Tencent Cloud.

Tencent is one of the largest IT companies in China and the world, with a focus on Internet services and gaming. It provides services for hundreds of millions of people via its flagship products like QQ and WeChat.

MariaDB and MySQL are widely used in many Tencent business groups, and Tencent also has it’s own versions of MySQL (called TDSQL and Tencent MySQL, TXSQL). …