MariaDB applied to participate in the first Google Season of Docs.

MariaDB applied to participate in the 2020 Google Season of Docs, but was unsuccessful.

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Google Season of Docs 2019

MariaDB applied to participate in the first Google Season of Docs. Unfortunately, as a pilot project, Google were only able to accept a limited number of applications, and we were unsuccessful.

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List of Tasks

Stored Procedures Documentation

The capabilities of MariaDB Server are critical to producing large-scale applications. The current documentation lacks sufficient examples, and the examples warrant testing. Getting Started content would make this easier to adopt. MariaDB's implementation is based on ISO SQL/PSM.

Getting Started with Connector/C and Connector/J

and provide the ability to access a MariaDB Server from applications built in C/C++ and Java, respectively. The current documentation for these connectors lacks Getting Started guides.

Spider Documentation

The Storage Engine uses partitioning to provide data sharding through multiple servers. This task involves greatly expanding the existing documentation, including more detail about when to use Spider, basic usage, updating the , detailed examples of the effects of the and , as well as the . You will also ensure changes in the most recent Spider releases are properly documented.

Mroonga Documentation

is a full text search storage engine based on Groonga, which is an open-source CJK-ready fulltext search engine using column base. This project involves greatly expanding the existing MariaDB documentation on the use of this storage engine. A detailed tutorial and user guide, including examples of the various Mroonga , and the effects of changing their settings, as well as the parser and .

Translation

You will choose a major language and ensure that a substantial subsection of the documentation is translated into that language. See .

Migration Documentation

You will choose a major relational DBMS, and, focusing on the most recent stable releases, document the process to migrate to MariaDB, including MariaDB equivalents to features in that system, and a detailed list of features that exist in one but not the other, as well as possible workarounds. For an example, see the documentation on (bearing that MariaDB is a MySQL fork, and is substantially more similar to MySQL than to other systems).

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