OK, MariaDB Server didn’t specifically win, but a project around the MariaDB Catalogs feature won and the team behind it was led by me. In this post, I shall dig into what the CloudFest Hackathon is, what we did there and why it is a big deal.
CloudFest and the Hackathon
CloudFest is an event that happens every year in Europa Park, which is normally an amusement park, located in Rust, Germany. It is a fantastic web hosting and cloud event that spans a whole week, and there are often a lot of entertainment events happening around the main event.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.5.0, a preview release in the MariaDB 11.5 series. MariaDB 11.5 is a short-term release.
See the release notes for details.
Release Notes What is MariaDB 11.5?
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
From near and from far, the same thing – in this case MariaDB plc – can look quite different. It’s all doom and gloom in an Infoworld article on MariaDB plc Can MariaDB’s enterprise business be saved? and its French translation in Le Monde Informatique L’activité entreprise de MariaDB bientôt liquidée ?
The turbulence seems exaggerated
True, our mission to provide Continuity is there to give users – including MariaDB plc customers – the confidence needed to continue using MariaDB Server under all circumstances. However, the turbulence portrayed in the press gives an unnecessarily bleak picture.
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Continue reading “MariaDB plc – looking forward to business as usual”
Years ago, I watched a film with my children (now adults themselves) called Meet the Robinsons. A running theme from the film is that it is OK to make mistakes because it is from those mistakes we can learn and “keep moving forward”.
An unfortunate perfect storm of several problems occurred which meant that on the 21st February 2024, the mariadb:latest Docker image would not work with PHP and NodeJS clients. Now, one of the things I helped introduce into the MariaDB Foundation is the concept of doing post-mortems, not just when things go wrong but when they go right too.
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Continue reading “Post-mortem: PHP and MariaDB Docker issue”
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.4.1, the first Release Candidate in the MariaDB 11.4 series, and MariaDB 11.3.2, the first and final stable release in the MariaDB 11.3 series. Both are short-term series. From MariaDB 11.3, we will stop doing GA bug fix releases within each minor version. If you wish to use a long-term release, MariaDB 10.11 will be maintained until 2028.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?
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What a FOSDEM weekend in Brussels! This was MariaDB Foundation’s best FOSDEM ever, although it wasn’t a FOSDEM at all. Confused? Stay tuned.
A live migration from MySQL 5.7
The highlight in several respects was the live migration of the Cantamen cluster from MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.11.
Currently, cantamen operates a MySQL 5.7 master-slave-replication cluster as backbone for our Carsharing system software solution “EBuS”. We are the leading provider in this market serving some 10.000 vehicles for roughly estimated 150.000 users. Three database schemas with some 550 tables fill about 412 GB of hard disk space on the 128-GB-RAM-equipped servers.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.11.7, MariaDB 10.6.17, MariaDB 10.5.24 and MariaDB 10.4.33, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates), as well as MariaDB 11.2.3, MariaDB 11.1.4 and MariaDB 11.0.5, the latest stable releases in their respective short-term series (maintained for one year).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.2?
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Continue reading “MariaDB 11.2.3, 11.1.4, 11.0.5, 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, 10.4.33 now available”
In this blog we will explore how to setup a docker compose file in order to migrate from MySQL 5.7 to the latest MariaDB.
In the next blog we will explain how to setup a docker compose file to migrate from MySQL 8.0 to MariaDB.
The steps to migrate from MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB are:
- Start container by running docker-compose file
- Use the MySQL data directory and start MariaDB with MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1
Let’s explore each step.
1. Start MySQL
The MySQL container is started using the following docker-compose file.
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