Tag: MariaDB
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Wrapping up MariaDB 2011
Parts of the world are already celebrating Christmas Eve and it’s time to relax and spend time with family and friends. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas this is when there is time for less work. Here are a few words to round off MariaDB’s current state and where it’s heading.
This year culminated in MariaDB 5.3.3, the release candidate of 5.3. This is a significant release that makes years of work available by default in the database server. Earlier […]
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Announcing new features in MariaDB
We have lately been talking about some upcoming features that we feel are important to MariaDB users, because the corresponding ones that will be provided with MySQL will be incompatible with MariaDB and closed source.
We’re happy to announce the following:
- The next version of MariaDB, version 5.2.10 will include an open source PAM Authentication Plugin. MariaDB 5.2.10 is scheduled for release next week.
- A Windows Authentication Plugin is in development and QA currently and will be part of MariaDB 5.2.11, which is scheduled for release before Christmas.
- MariaDB 5.5 will include both of the above plugins and an open source thread pool implementation. The soon-to-be-launched first version however will not include the thread pool.
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Writing a MariaDB PAM Authentication Plugin
As you may know, since version 5.2.0 (released in April 2010) we support Pluggable Authentication. Using this feature one can implement an arbitrary user authentication and account management policy, completely replacing built-in MariaDB authentication with its username/password combination and mysql.user table.
Also, as you might have heard, Oracle has recently released a PAM authentication plugin for MySQL. Alas, this plugin will not run on MariaDB — although the MySQL implementation of pluggable authentication is based on ours, the API is incompatible. […]
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-13 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-13: MariaDB-εφημερίδα-13-Nov-2011.pdf
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-12 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-12: MariaDB εφημερίδα – 12 Nov 2011
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-11 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-11: MariaDB-εφημερίδα-11-Nov-2011.pdf
(εφημερίδα = newspaper)
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Arch Linux users get MariaDB
If you happen to be using Arch Linux, you can now use MariaDB as it comes with it. Currently shipping 5.3.1 beta, it will be upgraded to the latest release soon. Find out how to get it installed.
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MariaDB Statistics and Surveys
I just finished reading a couple of interesting, and somewhat related, blog posts which I think are worth sharing (apologies to anyone who has already seen them). One is from Jelastic and the other is from Michal Hrušecký.
I’ve written about MariaDB and the Jelastic cloud before (see MariaDB now available as a hosted database via Jelastic cloud platform). Now Jelastic has published statistics on the relative popularity of the various databases they offer. The good news is MariaDB is […]