Tag Archives: MariaDB

MariaDB and TokuDB

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I was happy to see the announcement yesterday from Tokutek regarding their addition of MariaDB to their list of supported platforms for the TokuDB storage engine.

One particular item in the press release caught my eye: “Our customers are choosing MariaDB more and more frequently for their most demanding database applications.” We’ve added many new features over the past year in our various 5.1 and 5.2 releases, but beyond the new goodies we’ve focused a lot of energy on removing bugs and improving performance. We’ve known for a while that MariaDB is the best version of MySQL out there; it’s nice that others are starting to see the same thing.

Welcome Tokutek and TokuDB to the MariaDB family!

Recently in MariaDB #2

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There has been a lot happening in the MariaDB community recently, and there has been growth. Here are some of the highlights. Thank you to all our current contributors, and to others that want to contribute, shoot community[at]askmonty[dot]org an e-mail.

MariaDB 5.2.3 binaries for Solaris and Debian Sparc

Our Sparc community contributor, Mark, has continued to make popular binaries for Solaris 10 and Debian Sparc. He’s kept up to speed with MariaDB 5.2.3, so please visit him and download the binaries.

MariaDB 5.2.3 on the openSUSE Build Service

Community contributor Michal Hrušecký has packaged MariaDB for openSUSE and its available via the openSUSE build service. It is ready up to version 5.2.3, and is still in the unstable repository (it will progress further based on more testing). A benefit of the openSUSE build service is that it also churns out RPMs for CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise.

MariaDB Virtual Machines

Again from Mark, he’s been working on creating virtual machines for people to test MariaDB with. He’s looking for feedback on which virtualization platform people are looking for VMs for. Currently there is a VM for CentOS 5.5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. These are all 64-bit virtual machines. You can make use of them using VirtualBox.

Mirrors

Looking back at the releases page, we have made eleven 5.1 releases and four 5.2 releases. When we made our first 5.1 release we had one mirror (this was in April 2009). When we made our first 5.2 release, we had four mirrors (this was in April 2010). Today we are up to seven mirrors, and from recent requests I expect this to grow. If you want to mirror MariaDB, check out the Mirroring MariaDB guide on the AskMonty Knowledgebase.

 

MariaDB 5.1.51 released

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Dear MariaDB users,

The development team have been busy bees, and have freshly released MariaDB 5.1.51. MariaDB is a branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes and many community patches.

This release of MariaDB 5.1.51 includes MySQL up to version 5.1.51. It also includes XtraDB up to version 5.1.51-12. For more information, do not hesitate to read the release notes, and for more detailed changes, do hop on over to the changelog.

MariaDB is available in source and binary form in a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Solaris x86. These are all available from the downloads page.

Enjoy!