Tag: MariaDB
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Monty Program & SkySQL release the MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications
Connectors now available to the MySQL® community as part of the MariaDB open source project
Helsinki – November 29, 2012 – Monty Program, the home of MariaDB, owned by MySQL®-database-creator Monty Widenius and its employees, and SkySQL, the trusted provider of open source database solutions, today announced the immediate availability of their connectors, ‘MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications’, to the wider MySQL® database community in the permissive LGPL licence.
With this announcement, the connectors become […]
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Announcing MariaDB 10.0.0 Alpha
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.0! This is an alpha release.
MariaDB 10.0 is the current development version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else. See “Explanation on MariaDB 10.0” and “What comes in between MariaDB now and MySQL 5.6?” for more information on why we’re calling this series “MariaDB 10.0”.
This is the first 10.0-based […]
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MariaDB/MySQL Tokyo Meetup #1
If you’re interested in MariaDB & MySQL and happen to be in Tokyo, do drop by the first ever MariaDB/MySQL Tokyo Meetup #1.
It happens October 16 2012, from 18.00-20.00. It is graciously hosted at K.K.Ashisuto (HQ) Salon Space (2nd floor). We have maps in Japanese and English.
See you there!
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MariaDB non-blocking client API and node.js
Last Summer I implemented a non-blocking client API in MariaDB, and it was included in the MariaDB 5.5 release. But somehow I never got around to announcing it.
However, that did not prevent Brian White from noticing it, and using it to implement a new mysql binding for node.js called mariasql.
Now, node.js is a single-threaded, event-driven framework for web application sever development. In such frameworks, all I/O is done non-blocking or asynchronously, as are all other actions that may […]
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Making it easier to follow and participate in MariaDB development
In June, I told about the consolidation of the MariaDB project tools. The final piece of this consolidation, to report bugs in the MariaDB project tracking tool called JIRA has now been finalized.
Bug reporting stays open! JIRA is open to anyone. The bug reports are publicly available, even without logging in and as a bonus it will be easier to follow what is going on in the project since you don’t have to jump between several tools to get […]
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Announcing the Cassandra Storage Engine
We’re pleased to announce the first preview version of the Cassandra Storage Engine!
The Cassandra Storage Engine (SE) allows access to Cassandra databases from MariaDB/MySQL, and to provide data integration between the SQL and NoSQL worlds.
Have you ever needed to
- grab some of Cassandra’s data from your web frontend, or SQL query?
- insert a few records into Cassandra from some part of your app?
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MariaDB Directions
Infor announced this week, that they will provide open source database alternatives to some of their products. MariaDB has been chosen, tested, and certified by Infor to be the open source database of choice (together with MySQL) for the Infor LN and ION products. Infor LN is Infor’s flagship ERP and is sometimes better known by its former name, Baan. It has 25 years of manufacturing know-how built into it and is used by more than 5,000 companies worldwide in […]
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MariaDB Galera Cluster Alpha immediately available
Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster!
With this release, we’re addressing the numerous requests we’ve received over the past few months for a MariaDB-based Galera Cluster. MariaDB, the more reliable, performant, feature-complete & backwards compatible MySQL database becomes even more attractive by making it available for Galera Cluster.
What is it?
- A straight merge of MariaDB 5.5.25 with Galera Cluster by Codership
- An alpha release which should not be used in production environments
- Using the Galera replication methodology, users get:
- Synchronous, multi-master replication with guaranteed data consistency
- This solution provides both read & write scalability