Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I [...]
New MariaDB release is out
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
XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB
If you do not follow MariaDB development, I want to head up XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB server and will be included in binary releases of MariaDB (scheduled on end of August – September) as replacement of InnoDB storage engine. MariaDB will also include PBXT storage engine, Sphinx storage engine and few our non-InnoDB [...]

