On Databases, Temporal Datatypes and Trains
In this first blog in a series, Anders Karlsson will look at aspects of temporal datatypes. Surprisingly, he also talks a bit about trains and how they relate.
MariaDB Blog
Why Marko Mäkelä, Lead Developer InnoDB, Recently Joined MariaDB Corporation
Marko Mäkelä, the first full-time employee at Innobase Oy in 2003 explains why he recently joined MariaDB Corporation.
IHME Believes Open Source MariaDB ColumnStore Is The Future of Data Warehousing
MariaDB ColumnStore user Andrew Ernst from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation discusses how other storage engines have "failed miserably" and why he chose ColumnStore instead.
General Availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0
I am happy to announce the general availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0!
MariaDB ColumnStore is a powerful open source columnar storage engine that unites transactional and analytic processing with a single ANSI SQL front end to deliver a solution that simplifies high-performance, big data analytics.
A Look Inside MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.6 GA
Today, MariaDB ColumnStore has reached a major milestone – MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0 is now GA with the release of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.6 GA. The journey of MariaDB ColumnStore began in January 2016 when our team started building ColumnStore. The support from our early alpha and beta adopters and community users has helped us take MariaDB ColumnStore from the first alpha release to the GA today.
How MariaDB ColumnStore Handles Big Data Workloads – Storage Architecture
In this blog post, I will outline MariaDB ColumnStore's architecture, which has the capacity to handle large datasets and scale out across multiple nodes as your data grows.
Facebook MyRocks at MariaDB
Recently Rasmus Johansson announced that MariaDB is adding support for the Facebook MyRocks storage engine. In this blog members of the Facebook Database Engineering team helped us answer some questions we think our community will have about MyRocks.
Using the MariaDB Audit Plugin with MySQL
The MariaDB audit plugin is an audit plugin that is bundled with MariaDB server. However, even though it is bundled with MariaDB, the plugin is actually compatible with MySQL as well. For a step-by-step guide on how to use the plugin with MySQL, check out my blog post here
Importing InnoDB Partitions in MariaDB 10.0/10.1
Transportable tablespaces for InnoDB tables is a very useful feature added in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0. With this new feature, an InnoDB table’s tablespace file can be copied from one server to another, as long as the table uses a file-per-table tablespace.
M|17 Call for Papers
Please save the date! M|17 is MariaDB’s inaugural annual user conference that will bring together developers, architects, administrators and business people to learn, collaborate and network around the latest innovations at MariaDB and infrastructure modernization.