MariaDB project kept development going in the repository only not providing any binary releases since April, so release was well over due and it is here now. If you’re wondering how this release of MariaDB is different from MySQL you should read this FAQ
Post: CVE-2012-4414 strikes back in MySQL 5.5.29 (and what we're doing in Percona Server 5.5.29)
January 13, 2013 By 4 Comments
… case named rpl_mdev382.test which can be found in MariaDB and Percona Server sources. It is named after the designation… still have a test case courtesy of the MariaDB developers. I used the MariaDB test case against my branch that updated Percona… this situation, which then breaks statement based replication. Users of MariaDB and Percona Server are not affected, only MySQL 5.5…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks
February 19, 2012 By 24 Comments
… conspicuous omission, so it would probably be helpful for the MariaDB team to publish their benchmarks. Here is one place where… at extensive benchmarks: http://www.odbms.org/blog/2011/09/mariadb-the-new-mysql-interview-with-michael-monty-widenius/ The obvious… of MariaDB in several common types of workloads. When will MariaDB based on MySQL 5.6 be released? I suppose that when MariaDB…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks
February 19, 2012 By 24 Comments
… mainly of academic interest. These results highlight the real challenge MariaDB poses for users right now – do you want improved concurrency MySQL 5.5 provides or do you want Optimizer Changes MariaDB team developed ? If your workload is simple (sysbench like) MySQL… if you have need for high performance with complicated queries, MariaDB has additional optimizations for, it can be good choice for…
Post: Introducing the “Version Check” Feature in Percona Toolkit
September 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… in all variants of MySQL including MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB. To list a few: MySQL 5.5.25 UPDATE on InnoDB table enters recursion, consumes all disk space All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2… feature will support Percona Server, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL, and MariaDB. It will also check the Percona Toolkit, Perl, and Perl…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
Baron: On MariaDB vs Percona server, I sometimes see MariaDB having a group consisting of rather ignorant users. This is not supposed to say anything negative of MariaDB or its developers, or even the entire userbase as a… me. The archetype of this ignorant group is something like: * MariaDB is the new MySQL * Oracle’s MySQL is completely closed…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks
February 18, 2012 By 24 Comments
… 5.5. Now about fairness: MariaDB 5.3 is RC for the next production ready MariaDB‘s flagship database. For MySQL the… product is 5.6. So there we compare the future MariaDB with the current MySQL 5.5, and probably more fair…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1.9 is ready
February 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
…-change fails with “Duplicate entry” on MariaDB MariaDB 5.5.28 (https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5528-changelog/) fixed a bug: “Added… entry errors by using “INSERT IGNORE”, it now handles the MariaDB case by also ignoring duplicate entry errors in the code…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 7, 2012 By 17 Comments
Jan: The real MariaDB repository is on Launchpad at lp:maria. The git repository … fact I would say MariaDB is seriously underrepresented on places like planet mysql. (Ie possibly real MariaDB usage must be higher than… from simply reading the blog posts on planet mysql) FWIW, MariaDB may very well be a good choice for Ubuntu and…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… the moment and look to the possibility of switching to MariaDB (who keeps the whole process public) instead for the longer… the reasons why distributions like to pin release versions.) Given MariaDB is MySQL with patches, I’m not sure quite how much that gains, or if MariaDB are basically doing that work and making it clear what…
