MariaDB moves development to Github

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. …

MariaDB & MySQL Community Event videos & slides now up

If you couldn’t attend the MariaDB & MySQL Community Event in April 2014, held at the Hilton Santa Clara, fret not as there are slides and videos uploaded for you to watch at your leisure. There is likely to be at least one more community event later this year, so watch the space.

Currently on the page, you’ll find most of the talks with slides and the videos are professionally done – with slide overlays. The audio could be better on some, but for an event that was pulled together by Monty in less than 3 weeks, it’s not too shabby.

The Other MariaDB Blog

This is the blog of the MariaDB Foundation in particular and the MariaDB project in general. It is used to announce new MariaDB versions, for posts from MariaDB developers about new features, and for news from or about the MariaDB Foundation itself, among other things. For many this is the MariaDB blog, and on behalf of the MariaDB Foundation, welcome! We’re glad you’re here. Thanks for stopping by!

What you may not know is that there’s another MariaDB blog over at https://mariadb.com/blog run by the fine folks at SkySQL (full disclosure: I work for SkySQL, but my posts here are on behalf of the MariaDB project and the Foundation). …

MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.37 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.37. This is a Stable (GA) 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 5.5.37

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

Crunching XML files with MariaDB

In January I wrote my first post about node.js and MariaDB . In February I continued with a second post about using jQuery and some GIS calculations. Now it is time for the third and this time the main focus is not so much on GIS functionality, but instead on the capabilities MariaDB has for handling piles of unstructured data. In this case I’ll be focusing on crunching a pile of XML files without importing the XML data itself.

MariaDB 10.0, which had its GA launch in early April, includes the Connect engine. …

MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.10 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.10. 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 10.0.10

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

MariaDB 5.5.37 now available

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.37. 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 5.5.37

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …

Dotdeb repository problems with MariaDB 5.5 (solution)

Dotdeb is a repository currently targeting Debian and Ubuntu, providing a nice set of packages for LAMP servers.

Recently, MySQL 5.6 was added to the dotdeb repository. On the surface, this is a very harmless addition. MariaDB is a replacement for MySQL and it should be possible for applications designed for MySQL to easily switch to MariaDB. Therefore MariaDB also includes the libraries that applications using MySQL depend upon, such as libmysqlclient18 and mysql-common. The dpkg package manager looks at the MySQL 5.6 packages in dotdeb and assumes that 5.6 is a higher version than 5.5, which results in it removing or replacing libraries during normal apt-get installation and upgrade procedures. …