Category Archives: Community
The mission of the MariaDB Foundation is to ensure continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem. We facilitate the development of the MariaDB Server and the related connectors as listed on our GitHub account. Core to us is to enable and foster collaboration so that contributing is meaningful and produces results for everybody.
Here are some of the things we do to ensure true open source:
- Publish code in real time, not just at release time.
- Discuss and plan on the public mailing lists and on IRC.
- Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities.
…
Continue reading “MariaDB Server is a true open source project”
At MariaDB we often get to deal with tables, but this time we took on one of a different type, and climbed to the top. We’re in Cape Town for Debconf16, and managed to take some time to climb to the top of Table Mountain.
It’s been a productive visit. Otto, who handles MariaDB packaging for Debian and Ubuntu, and is also CEO of the Foundation, hosted a BoF session on MariaDB and MySQL packaging. It’s an interesting time on the Debian packaging side, with some changes imminent, and it’s been great to see the interest and support. …
The 2016 MariaDB Developers Meetup will be taking place in Amsterdam, from 6 – 8 October.
The meetup will last for three days and you can join for the whole time, or as little time as you wish.
The schedule of this unconference will be drafted in a public spreadsheet. Initially, anyone attending can help set the schedule by adding sessions, as well as voting for session’s they’re interested in, by incrementing the vote counter. Based on this, the schedule will be drawn up.
The event venue and lunches are sponsored by Booking.com. …
And for the fourth year in a row, MariaDB Foundation participates in the Google Summer of Code! The MariaDB Organization in GSoC is an umbrella organization for all projects that belongs to the MariaDB ecosystem, be it MariaDB Server, MariaDB Connectors, or MariaDB MaxScale. The complete list of our suggested project ideas is in MariaDB Jira. This year we were granted 10 student slots (as compared to 8 last year, 5 in 2014, and 3 in 2013). And it was good, as applicants this year were exceptionally strong. Our students have chosen these projects:
For the server:
- MDEV-7773 Aggregate Stored Functions
- MDEV-8947 Cassandra connector support for 2.x
- MDEV-4989 Support for GTID in mysqlbinlog
- MDEV-9711 NO PAD collations
- MDEV-9197 Pushdown conditions into non-mergeable views/derived tables
- MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (server-side implementation) and adaptive hashing for generated hash
- MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (in MyISAM, Aria, InnoDB, and XtraDB)
student: Varun Raiko, mentors: Sanja Byelkin and Vicențiu Ciorbaru
student: Charles Muurmu, mentor: Sergey Petrunia
blog: https://cassandrastorageenginev2.wordpress.com/
student: Becca Tucker, mentors: Lixun Peng and Colin Charles
student: Daniil Medvedev, mentor: Alexander Barkov
student: Galina Shalygina, mentors: Igor Babaev and Sergey Petrunia
blog: http://gsocmariadbshagalla.blogspot.ru/
student: Sachin Setiya, mentor: Sergei Golubchik
student: Shubham Barai, mentors: Jan Lindström and Sergei Golubchik
For the MariaDB Connector/C:
- CONC-125 Import and export popular data formats from and to dynamic columns
student: Kris Massey, mentors: Georg Richter and Sanja Byelkin
blog: https://connectorcgsoc2016.wordpress.com/
For the MariaDB MaxScale:
- MXS-1 MaxScale filter to real Microsoft SQL Server syntax
student: Lisa Reilly Brinson, mentor: Markus Mäkelä
blog: https://maxscalefiltergsocproject.wordpress.com
For the Master High Availability Manager for MySQL:
- Provide GTID support for MariaDB MHA
student: Charles Dirk, mentor: Colin Charles
blog: https://mariadbmhagtidgsoc2016.wordpress.com/
Many projects have two mentors to ensure that the student always gets a quick answer to his questions and someone is always available to help even if one of the mentors is, for example, on vacations. …
If you are in Helsinki on Thursday next week March 17th, join us for the MariaDB meetup at Solinor. MariaDB team members will present the latest on MariaDB 10.1, MaxScale and MariaDB’s future roadmap.
On stage Rasmus Johansson VP Engineering, MariaDB Corporation and Johan Wikman & Markus Mäkelä, developers of MaxScale.
See the meetup page for the agenda and registration:
http://www.meetup.com/Helsinki-MySQL-User-Group/events/229338790/ …
MariaDB was voted database of the year for the third year in succession in the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice awards, winning 45.49% of the vote, up from 34.21% last year. Thanks to everyone from the community that voted for us.
2016 will be a busy year, including the upcoming release of MariaDB 10.2. Take a look at some of the features in the pipeline at Plans for 10.x.
And as a community-driven project, you’re of course very welcome to get involved – see some of the ways to do so here. …
Continue reading “MariaDB wins LinuxQuestions.org Database of the Year for the Third Year Running”
MariaDB won the 2013 and the 2014 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Database of the Year, and is in the running again for 2015 winner.
Up until 2012, MySQL held a near-monopoly on the title, having won every year since at least 2001 (except for 2002, won by PostgreSQL).
Since 2013, however, it’s been all MariaDB, and now MariaDB is going for a hat-trick of wins.
2015 was a great year for MariaDB development, and the latest stable release, 10.1, includes Galera Cluster, a true multi-master solution, table, tablespace and log encryption, page compression, replication enhancements, numerous optimizations, and a whole lot more. …
The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about 9% since 2014. Good growth has been visible all over the MariaDB ecosystem and we can conclude that 2015 was a successful year for MariaDB.
Increased adoption
MariaDB was included for the first time in an official Debian release (version 8.0 “Jessie”) and there has been strong adoption of MariaDB 10.0 in Linux distributions that already shipped 5.5. MariaDB is now available from all major Linux distributions including SUSE, RedHat, Debian and Ubuntu.
Adoption of MariaDB in other platforms also increased, and MariaDB is now available as a database option on, among others, Amazon RDS, 1&1, Azure and Juju Charm Store (Ubuntu). …