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Dear MariaDB users,
MariaDB 5.2, a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes and many community patches, has been released. It has all changes up to MySQL 5.1.51.
For an overview of what’s new in MariaDB 5.2.3, please see the release notes (5.2.2, 5.2.1, and 5.2.0 also).
MariaDB 5.2 includes a number of user enhancements including:
- Improved user statistics which help understand server activity better and identify the source of the load
- VIRTUAL and PERSISTENT virtual columns
- Group commit in the Aria storage engine (the engine formerly known as the Maria engine)
- Pluggable authentication
- Segmented key cache for MyISAM to improve performance
- Two new storage engines: OQGRAPH and an interface to the full-text search engine Sphinx by way of SphinxSE.
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Monty Program along with various guests and our friends at the recently founded SkySQL recently wrapped up a meeting in Istanbul Turkey. Sadly it rained most days but we had a good time and got a lot done.
Besides learning how to say “Şerefe” which is “Cheers” in Turkish, we discussed the future of MariaDB, our companies goals, the MariaDB knowledge base and many other topics. Since I am the web guy, I lead the presentation / talk on the KB and thought I would share some highpoints of it with you.
If you don’t know, the KB is located at http://kb.askmonty.org. …
Continue reading “Şerefe! – The MariaDB Knowledge Base in Istanbul”
We rely on a network of mirrors to efficiently distribute MariaDB to the world. It would be impossible for us to distribute MariaDB without the assistance of our mirrors. Thank you!
Today we’d like to announce that thanks to the generosity of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, mirroring MariaDB is faster and easier than ever.
If you have some extra hard drive space and spare bandwidth, please consider becoming a mirror. Instructions on how you can become an official MariaDB mirror are on the “Mirroring MariaDB” page in the AskMonty.org Knowledgebase. …