Performance evaluation of MariaDB 10.1 and MySQL 5.7.4-labs-tplc

Introduction

Evaluating the performance of database systems is a very demanding task. There are a lot of hard choices to be made, e.g.:

  • What operating system and operating system version is to be used
  • What configuration setup is to be used
  • What benchmarks are to be used and how long are the warm-up and measure times
  • What test setups are to be used
  • What version of the database management system is used
  • What storage engine is used

While performance evaluation is mostly machine time, there is still a lot of hard work for the human monitoring the tests. …

MariaDB 5.5.39 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.39. 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.

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MariaDB Galera Cluster 10 is now stable (GA)

A much awaited release from the MariaDB project is now stable (GA) – MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.12. This is a complete merge of MariaDB 10.0.12 and Galera Cluster, with additional features and bug fixes. This gives you the entire power of Galera Cluster as well as the benefits of all the MariaDB 10 features

This is the fourth release in the 10.0 Galera Cluster series, and for more changes, please review the changelog and release notes. What are you waiting for, download it now!

Eventually Consistent Databases: State of the Art

Introduction

Eventual consistency [1] is a consistency model, which is used in many large distributed databases. Such databases require that all changes to a replicated piece of data eventually reach all affected replicas. Furthermore, the conflict resolution is not handled in these databases, and the responsibility is pushed up to the application authors in the event of conflicting updates. Eventual consistency is a specific form of weak consistency: the storage system guarantees that if no new updates are made to the object, eventually all accesses will return the last updated value [1]. If no failures occur, the maximum size of the inconsistency window can be determined based on the factors such as communication delays, the load on the system, and the number of replicas involved in the replication scheme. …

MariaDB 10.0.12 now available

Download MariaDB 10.0.12

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.12. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 10.0? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 10.0 series.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB hugged Helsinki

One could say that MariaDB originates from Finland’s capital Helsinki. In fact so does MySQL. It was in the Helsinki area that MySQL saw daylight. It was here that Monty Widenius laid the ground for MySQL already in the 80’s, maybe even 1979, when he created UNIREG from which parts were reused when he together with the other 2 founders of MySQL released the first version of MySQL in 1995.

Last week, 19 years later, a MariaDB event was held in Helsinki. It was SkySQL that arranged the first in a row of this year’s MariaDB Roadshow events. …

MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.11 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.11. This is a Beta release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.11

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MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 5.5.38 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.38. 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.

Download MariaDB 5.5.38

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …