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MariaDB DevRoom at FOSDEM
Great news! MariaDB got its own DevRoom at FOSDEM 6-7 Feb 2021. Usually FOSDEM happens in Brussels, but nobody is surprised that it is virtual this year.
What FOSDEM is
FOSDEM is the biggest Free and Open Source Developers Meeting worldwide. I am sure it remains so in these pandemic times. While I will miss all the many social f2f encounters at FOSDEM, I am looking forward to meeting people virtually.
Separating MariaDB from MySQL
For MariaDB Foundation, this is […]
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MariaDB Server MiniFest Wed 9 Dec 2020
New MariaDB releases come with regular intervals. Releasing a new version is a balance between new functionality and bugfixes on one side, and stability on the other. How do we get optimum quality for the releases? And what exactly is quality, from the point of view of DBAs and developers that use MariaDB Server?
That’s the setting of our MariaDB Server MiniFest in two weeks.
New MariaDB Releases: The DBA & Developer Experience
This MiniFest is called “mini” for three […]
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Making MariaDB understand MySQL JSON
Good news for MySQL users wishing to upgrade to MariaDB: MariaDB 10.5.7 onwards understands formerly-incompatible MySQL JSON fields! This blog entry explains how to install and use them.
Introducing MYSQL_JSON plugin
Starting from MariaDB 10.5.7 (commit f6549e), it is possible to upgrade from MySQL 5.7 tables containing JSON by loading the MYSQL_JSON data type plugin.
MariaDB and MySQL JSON formats are not the same. In MySQL, the JSON type is a native type, while in MariaDB JSON is just an […]
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Emergency Release of MariaDB 10.5.8, 10.4.17, 10.3.27, and 10.2.36 is now available
Why do we release MariaDB again only a week after the 10.5.7, 10.4.16, etc? What’s the emergency?
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MariaDB & Ecosystem Fragmentation
We hear you, Kristian Köhntopp! Thank you for taking the time to articulate what many others are probably thinking.
For those of you to whom this sounds cryptic, let me share how I interpreted Kristian Köhntopp’s blog MySQL: Ecosystem fragmentation (https://blog.koehntopp.info/2020/10/28/mysql-ecosystem-fragmentation.html), published last week:
Kristian noted that the question “Which version of MySQL do you run on?” for a long time hasn’t been merely answered by a simple version number, since there are reasons to perceive MariaDB and Aurora to […]
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MariaDB 10.5.7, 10.4.16, 10.3.26, 10.2.35 and 10.1.48 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.5.7, MariaDB 10.4.16, MariaDB 10.3.26, MariaDB 10.2.35 and MariaDB 10.1.48, the latest stable releases in their respective series.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 10.5.7
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.5?
Download MariaDB 10.4.16
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.4?
Download MariaDB 10.3.26
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.3?
Download MariaDB 10.2.35
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2?
Download MariaDB 10.1.48
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Machine Learning straight through SQL
Machine learning is one area that cannot succeed without data. Traditionally, machine learning frameworks read it from CSV files or similar data sources. This brings an interesting set of challenges because in most cases the data is stored in databases, not simple raw files. It takes time and effort to move data from one format to another. Additionally, one needs to write some code (usually python) to prepare the data just like the ML framework expects it.
I was pleasantly […]