Tag: #nosql

  • Selecting the right database

    MariaDB 10.4 and the Competition

    How do you select a database in practice? How do you pretend to select it? And, if you want to be serious, how do you select it logically?

    Those are the key questions I dug into, during my keynote last week at Percona Live Online.

    For those who feel they don’t want to listen to the entire 30 minute video of the presentation, I have compiled a number of entry points for you below:

    • 0:23 Silly hat meme, “Teknologmössa”
    • 2:19 Agenda
    • 2:43 Choosing a database in practice
    • 3:59 Pretending to choose a database
    • 5:00 Triggers for making a fresh choice
    • 5:51 Monetary impulses
    • 7:53 Database lifecycle impulses
    • 10:07 MariaDB 5.5 on Github
    • 11:24 Framework for database choice: 1. Technology 2. Business 3. Ethics
    • 13:49 Technology questions within framework
    • 15:21 NoSQL in MariaDB – native JSON support
    • 15:41 “Non-relational persistent data considered evil”
    • 18:30 “Closed source databases considered evil”
    • 18:41 DBS Bank migrated off Oracle to MariaDB 10.3
    • 19:47 Choosing a database logically
    • 19:57 “This is a sensitive topic”
    • 20:25 Picking Postgres vs picking MySQL/MariaDB
    • 21:24 Picking MariaDB vs picking MySQL
    • 21:54 Questions meant to help you make the right choice
    • 22:32 The importance of presence in Linux distributions
    • 22:50 The release model: the importance of separating feature releases from bug fix releases
    • 23:28 Business questions within framework
    • 23:54 Controlling the roadmap of the database
    • 24:46 Ethical questions within framework
    • 25:30 Comparing Planet MySQL and Planet MariaDB blacklisting and whitelisting
    • 26:27 Hats off to Oracle for taking care of MySQL much better than I had thought
    • 26:58 Hats off to Percona for helping to keep MySQL alive
    • 27:13 Ethical questions: attitude to openness
    • 27:59 Ethical questions: governance
    • 28:01 MariaDB Corporation
    • 28:18 MariaDB Foundation
    • 28:43 Checks and balances in governance
    • 29:02 Backwards Compatibility, data formats not changing
    • 29:35 Promoting health: Solstice Run 20 June 2020 – let’s do some running!
    • 30:29 Concluding words: We need your help to make your path of least resistance point towards MariaDB Server
  • MariaDB Academy: NoSQL in MariaDB – JSON support.

    Last week, MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö asked how MariaDB can help you create great applications, and the first in what is sure to be many attempts to answer that was released today with Senior Software Developer and Team Lead Vicențiu Ciorbaru’s new video titled NoSQL in MariaDB – JSON support.

    Demonstrating the primary JSON functions, JSON_VALID, JSON_COMPACT, JSON_DETAILED, JSON_INSERT, JSON_REPLACE, JSON_REMOVE and JSON_EXTRACT, Vicențiu covers the basics of MariaDB’s JSON functionality, culminating in a game data structure that sees […]