MariaDB at SCALE13x

Come see us at SCALE13x in Los Angeles, February 19-22 2015, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. The schedule has Max Mether speaking on Friday and Colin Charles speaking on Saturday. MariaDB Corporation will also have a booth at the expo hall with giveaways, so come say hi to Marc Sherwood and Rod Allen. If you need a discount code, remember to use SPEAK and save some money!

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 Call for Papers

The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo (PLMCE) 2015 Call for Papers will close November 16 2014. It is a great place to talk shop about all things MySQL, MariaDB, and the community surrounding it. It happens April 13-16 2015, and I’m sure you’re thinking about ideas so make use of the weekend well and submit a paper, because this is a great event to attend. It’s also a good time to meet some of the MariaDB crew, whom tend to show up as speakers & attendees alike!

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 with MariaDB 10

Congratulations to the SUSE team, for the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. It comes by default with MariaDB 10.0.11, and you can find out more information in the release notes (in particular MariaDB replaces MySQL). Let us know if you’re using this, even on systems like POWER – we love to hear from our users!

Meet some of the MariaDB Team at Percona Live London

The MariaDB Team will have the following presentations at Percona Live London:

We’ll also be at the community meetups and all around the conference during those couple of days. Don’t forget that if you haven’t already registered, you can use discount code ‘PLUK14CC’ for a £20 discount.

MariaDB Galera Cluster 10 is now stable (GA)

A much awaited release from the MariaDB project is now stable (GA) – MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.12. This is a complete merge of MariaDB 10.0.12 and Galera Cluster, with additional features and bug fixes. This gives you the entire power of Galera Cluster as well as the benefits of all the MariaDB 10 features

This is the fourth release in the 10.0 Galera Cluster series, and for more changes, please review the changelog and release notes. What are you waiting for, download it now!

MariaDB & MySQL Community Event videos & slides now up

If you couldn’t attend the MariaDB & MySQL Community Event in April 2014, held at the Hilton Santa Clara, fret not as there are slides and videos uploaded for you to watch at your leisure. There is likely to be at least one more community event later this year, so watch the space.

Currently on the page, you’ll find most of the talks with slides and the videos are professionally done – with slide overlays. The audio could be better on some, but for an event that was pulled together by Monty in less than 3 weeks, it’s not too shabby.

Merging 5.6 test cases and thoughts on feature deprecation in MariaDB 10.0

MariaDB 10 is nearing GA, and it makes sense to make sure that the test suite from MySQL 5.6 is merged into MariaDB 10. Svoj is doing a lot of this work, and then we like to look at features, especially ones that are deprecated upstream. We don’t do that on blogs, but on the maria-developers mailing list.

I bring to your attention: Intermediate status for test cases merge. We see that INSERT DELAYED and SHOW PROFILE for example are deprecated in MySQL 5.6. The only way for feedback to the MySQL team seems to be comments on Morgan’s blog.

MariaDB in Google Summer of Code 2014

MariaDB is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2014. Students are encouraged to propose a project before the deadline (this Friday!).

This is our second year participating, and as always we have an ideas page available. We also have a list of things we think are achievable in JIRA – check out our gsoc14 tag.

In 2013, we had three projects, of which two are in MariaDB 10.0: PCRE regular expressions and Roles. The other will be targeted towards MariaDB 10.1. There’s nothing like having GSoC students participate and have their code in shipping products.