Tag: Migration
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Success Story: zvoove Switzerland AG – From Legacy Systems to Scalable Solutions with MariaDB
Phillippe Balzli, CTO at zvoove Switzerland AG, shared in an interview with Kaj Arnö of MariaDB Foundation how the company navigated legacy software, rapid growth, and evolving customer needs – all with the help of MariaDB.
Who is zvoove?
zvoove Switzerland AG is a Swiss-based software company that provides tailored solutions for personnel service providers. The company has evolved significantly over the years, transitioning from M&D Computers to backoffice, and finally to zvoove Switzerland AG. Current CTO Phillippe Balzli took […]
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Wrapping up the MariaDB Bucharest Meetup
This past Friday was reserved for our very own cozy event in Bucharest, planned by the romanian squad of the MariaDB Foundation. With an audience ranging from students just starting out on their journey up to seniors with experience in multiple database servers and AI, lots of interesting talks took place. We were glad to meet the Head of Domains and IT Technology of our gold sponsor, IONOS.
Although not his first visit in Romania, Monty’s attendance was a welcome […]
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MariaDB ServerFest Berlin 17 Sep 2024
Come join us in Berlin, on Tue 17 Sep 2024! It’s time for our next MariaDB Server Fest, which we invite you to enjoy in person or virtually.
MariaDB Server Fests are the events where MariaDB Foundation and friends celebrate and share the latest new happenings in the world of MariaDB Server. And Berlin is a great place to be – to work in, to travel to, to meet in.
Welcome to Berlin!
The physical event is hosted by MariaDB Foundation’s […]
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Migration with Docker Official Images
In this blog we will explore how to setup a docker compose file in order to migrate from MySQL 5.7 to the latest MariaDB.
In the next blog we will explain how to setup a docker compose file to migrate from MySQL 8.0 to MariaDB.
The steps to migrate from MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB are:
Let’s explore each step.
1. Start MySQL
The MySQL container is started using the following docker-compose file.
2. Use MySQL data directory and start MariaDB […]
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Looking for more migration guinea pigs
Remember our open letter, Looking for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 guinea pigs?
We caught a nice German guinea pig!
We caught a nice guinea pig, a German one, from Hannover. They are currently using MySQL 5.7 (as was our prime wish), and they will be doing a live migration to MariaDB 10.11. They have 1.000.000.000 queries a day, their database size is 412 GB, and our goal is to the migration of the production data in less than five minutes […]
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Looking for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 guinea pigs
Dear users of MySQL 5.7 (or 8.0)!
Are you interested in getting help migrating to MariaDB 10.6 or 10.11, the latest long-term support releases? Are you coming to Brussels for FOSDEM in February? Do you have an open attitude, not minding to show a bit of dirty laundry in front of other users?
Then you may be a perfect candidate for our MariaDB Migration Workshop at our pre-FOSDEM event on Friday 2 Feb 2024. The workshop will be led by […]
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Connect SE JDBC table type: Accessing Tables From Another DBMS
In this blog we will show how to access MySQL and MariaDB DBMS tables from MariaDB Server. For that we will use Connect Storage Engine (SE), which supports different table types options. In this case we will use the JDBC table type. To use the JDBC table type we need to specify it in the CREATE TABLE definition for Connect SE and we need the Java connector for the DBMS we are accessing. For demonstration purposes we will use containers, […]
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Data migration from Oracle to MariaDB with Docker and Connect SE: A Step-by-Step Guide
In this blog we are going to learn how to migrate data from Oracle to MariaDB.
To begin, we’ll learn the basics about Oracle database to have an understanding about the steps that are done on the demo example. After, we will create a table in Oracle and migrate it to MariaDB.
To migrate data from Oracle there are 2 ways:
For demonstration, we are going to use a docker container with an Oracle Express Edition (XE) image.
To make […]