Category Archives: Development
MariaDB Connector/J has evolved a lot during the year. In this post I will talk about the failover capabilities in the connector and give some guidance on how to use them in some certain cases. One other important new feature that I’ll cover in a later article is the fact that MariaDB Connector/J can do load balancing over several servers now as well.
To start off with we’ll need the connector itself. Do either of the following to get version 1.2.3 of MariaDB Connector/J which is the newest stable version as of writing:
- Download the binary from https://mariadb.com/my_portal/download (requires login) .
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Continue reading “MariaDB Connector/J failover support – case Amazon Aurora”
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. …
Continue reading “Developer meeting & community meetup summary”
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. …
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. …
Continue reading “Welcome to the MariaDB Developers meeting in Amsterdam!”
Note that this post is now outdated. See Table and tablespace encryption on MariaDB 10.1
Introduction
For the moment, the only engines that fully support encryption are XtraDB and InnoDB. The Aria storage engine also supports encryption, but only for temporary tables.
MariaDB supports 2 different way to encrypt data in InnoDB/XtraDB:
- Specified table encryption: Only tables which you create with PAGE_ENCRYPTION=1 are encrypted. This feature was created by eperi.
- Tablespace encryption: Everything is encrypted (including log files). This feature was created by Google and is based on their MySQL branch.
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Continue reading “Table and tablespace encryption on MariaDB 10.1.3”
Good bye bzr, welcome git!
After latest releases we moved development of MariaDB Connectors for C, ODBC and Java from launchpad to github.
The connector repositories can be found under https://github.com/MariaDB
Repository-Links:
Feel free to watch, fork and contribute! …
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. …
Continue reading “Performance evaluation of MariaDB 10.1 and MySQL 5.7.4-labs-tplc”
Today marks a milestone in terms of the MariaDB project – going forward, the MariaDB project plans to use Github and git for source code management. The migration happens from Launchpad and the bzr tool.
The 10.1 server development (under heavy development now) will happen on Github. You can check it out here: https://github.com/MariaDB/server. Feel free to watch, star or even fork the code, and send us contributions!
Previous maria-captains should now provide their Github IDs so that they can be accorded similar status. Send the IDs to the maria-developers mailing list. …