MariaDB in Google Summer of Code 2016

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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

    • student: Varun Raiko, mentors: Sanja Byelkin and Vicențiu Ciorbaru

  • MDEV-8947 Cassandra connector support for 2.x

    • student: Charles Muurmu, mentor: Sergey Petrunia
    blog: https://cassandrastorageenginev2.wordpress.com/

  • MDEV-4989 Support for GTID in mysqlbinlog

    • student: Becca Tucker, mentors: Lixun Peng and Colin Charles

  • MDEV-9711 NO PAD collations

    • student: Daniil Medvedev, mentor: Alexander Barkov

  • MDEV-9197 Pushdown conditions into non-mergeable views/derived tables

    • student: Galina Shalygina, mentors: Igor Babaev and Sergey Petrunia
    blog: http://gsocmariadbshagalla.blogspot.ru/

  • MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (server-side implementation) and adaptive hashing for generated hash

    • student: Sachin Setiya, mentor: Sergei Golubchik

  • MDEV-371 Unique indexes for blobs (in MyISAM, Aria, InnoDB, and XtraDB)

    • student: Shubham Barai, mentors: Jan Lindström and Sergei Golubchik

For the MariaDB Connector/C:

For the MariaDB MaxScale:

For the Master High Availability Manager for MySQL:

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.

Let’s wish all our students a successful and productive summer!