MariaDB 10.1 shipped a few days ago, so it’s now a good time to focus on another important event. Last week we had a three day MariaDB developers meeting. It took place in Amsterdam (Oct 13-15). Meetings like this tend to have a great impact on the roadmap of the product. Booking.com was very kind to offer their facilities for the developer meeting.
Thank you Booking.com!
The day before the developer meeting there was a MySQL meetup arranged at eBay’s office in Amsterdam since, naturally, a lot of MariaDB developers were already in town for the developers meeting. …
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MariaDB 10.1 not only contains tons of new features, it has also been polished to deliver top performance. The biggest improvement has been achieved for scalability on massively multithreaded hardware.
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With the release of 10.1.8, MariaDB takes a next step. MariaDB 10.1 is now considered a stable release.
MariaDB 10.1 has a couple of main themes:
- Security
- High Availability
- Scalability
During the last few years there have been many request for more security features in MariaDB. Actually it’s a trend in general. Since open source software is getting more attractive all the time, more functionality is wanted in areas where proprietary software typically has been leading. This is especially true for databases. In addition data privacy is a very hot topic.
The big new thing in security for MariaDB 10.1 is a complete data at rest encryption solution. …
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.46. This is a Stable (GA) release.
See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 5.5? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 5.5 series.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
The 2015 MariaDB Developers meetup is taking place in Amsterdam, from October 13th to 15th. Anyone who is interested in contributing to the MariaDB project is welcome to join!
The event will be held in unconference style with lots of opportunities for discussions and collaboration around any topic, ranging from performance, new features, connectors to packaging and documentation. All core MariaDB developers will be present and available for discussions.
The meetup lasts for three days and you can join for the whole time, or as little time as you wish.
The schedule is drafted in a public spreadsheet. …
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Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1?
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.7. This is a Release Candidate (RC) release.
See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 10.1? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 10.1 series.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.21 and 5.5.45. These are both Stable (GA) releases.
Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.21
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?
Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.45
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?
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See the Release Notes and Changelogs for detailed information on these releases.
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
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Introduction
A foreign key is a field (or collection of fields) in one table that uniquely identifies a row of another table. The table containing the foreign key is called the child table, and the table containing the candidate key is called the referenced or parent table. The purpose of the foreign key is to identify a particular row of the referenced table. Therefore, it is required that the foreign key is equal to the candidate key in some row of the primary table, or else have no value (the NULL value). This is called a referential integrity constraint between the two tables. …
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