Node.js, MariaDB and GIS

The availability of the node.js binding for MariaDB’s non-blocking client library together with the GIS capabilities of MariaDB inspired me to make an example of using node.js and MariaDB to import so-called GPX tracks to a MariaDB database and then show them on a map. GPX tracks are what are stored by many GPS devices including running watches and smartphones.

My project makes use of MariaDB’s non-blocking client library together with the node.js platform and on top of that uses the GIS functionality found in MariaDB 5.5 and 10.0.

To start with let’s go through the software and components I’m using:

  • Node.js – The popular Node.js platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime.

What do you want to see in MariaDB 10.1?

Last night, after my previous blog post, everyone in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona gathered for dinner at El Cangrejo Loco, which, if my High School Spanish is working, translates as The Crazy Crab. After the excellent food, the tradition of singing at MySQL/MariaDB developer meetings was preserved.

Today the MariaDB developers in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona got together to work on plans for MariaDB 10.1. We also paused for a group photo:

Many tasks have been identified for possible inclusion in 10.1. Some have already been marked as such in JIRA.

MariaDB Developers at the SkySQL Engineering Meeting

Several MariaDB developers are attending SkySQL’s annual engineering meeting being held this week in Barcelona. While some of the discussions are SkySQL-specific (customers, internal projects, and so on), there are, naturally, lots of MariaDB discussions happening.

Patrik Sallner, CEO of SkySQL, opened the meeting this morning with a short presentation about SkySQL’s goals for 2014. While the plan includes standard business-like things that include growing the company and sales goals, the top two goals for 2014 are:

  1. Help make MariaDB into the leading open source database

  2. Help increase awareness and adoption of MariaDB

Looking back at 2013, it was an excellent year for MariaDB.

MariaDB 10.0.7 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.7. This is a Beta 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.

Download MariaDB 10.0.7

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?

Also see MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched – an important milestone.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

Dynamic replication filters — our wheel will be square!

This is both hilarious and sad. The new MySQL 5.7 milestone release presents a new feature — replication filters are now dynamic. This is a great and long awaited feature, no doubt about it.

In short, for years MySQL slaves could filter the incoming stream of replication events based on the database or table name these events were applicable to. These filters were configured using the my.cnf file (or command-line), in particular with the following variables:
replicate_do_db
replicate_ignore_db
replicate_do_table
replicate_ignore_table
replicate_wild_do_table
replicate_wild_ignore_table
Naturally, users wanted to be able to change the values of these options without having to restart the server. …

MariaDB 5.5.34 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.34. 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 5.5.34

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB 10.0.6 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.6. This is a Beta release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 10.0? page in the AskMonty Knowledgebase for general information about the MariaDB 10.0 series.

Download MariaDB 10.0.6

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?

Also see MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched – an important milestone.

Upcoming MariaDB Webinar

SkySQL will be hosting a webinar with Colin Charles, the chief evangelist of MariaDB. …

MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched – an important milestone

There has been a lot of discussion about MariaDB 10.0 throughout the whole year. When will it be released, what will it include, what is the focus on MariaDB going forward, etc? My feeling is that people have in the past few months started to understand the value of MariaDB 10.0. There is a good group of people and companies that have been trying out and using the MariaDB 10.0 alpha releases and providing us with excellent feedback.

MariaDB 10.0 is a massive release with loads of new features which ease several pain points that MariaDB and MySQL users have run into over the years. …