Plugins for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4

Overview

Plugins provide optional features in MariaDB Enterprise Server.

Plugin

Library

Description

Aria

Built-in plugin for Aria, a crash safe storage engine with MyISAM heritage. Used for internal temporary tables and privilege tables.

binlog

Built-in plugin for the Binary Log, used in single-primary replication and in point-in-time recoveries

BLACKHOLE

ha_blackhole.so

Plugin for Blackhole, a non-writing storage engine. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

CLIENT_STATISTICS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing statistical data on client connections

cracklib_password_check

cracklib_password_check.so

Password validation plugin, uses CrackLib to validate passwords as strong. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

CSV

Plugin for CSV, a storage engine for operating on CSV (comma-separated variables) files. Built-in plugin.

DISKS

disks.so

Information Schema table plugin, providing metadata on system disks. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, and is activated by default.

ed25519

auth_ed25519.so

Authentication plugin, validates against a password hash encrypted using EDCDSA. The ed25519 plugin ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server installations and is enabled by default. The ed25519 plugin is disabled in MariaDB SkySQL.

FEEDBACK

Plugin to collect configuration usage information and to optionally upload it to the MariaDB Foundation or another configured URL. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, but is disabled by default.

file_key_management

file_key_management.so

Encryption key management plugin, stores keys in files on the local file system. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server installations.

gssapi

auth_gssapi.so

Authentication plugin, validates user credentials against a GSSAPI-based authentication service, like Kerberos or NTLM. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

hashicorp_key_management

hashicorp_key_management.so

HashiCorp Vault key management plugin

INDEX_STATISTICS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing statistical data on index usage

InnoDB

Built-in plugin for InnoDB, an ACID-compliant transactional storage engine for general workloads

INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on the Buffer Pool pages

INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on the Buffer Pool pages in LRU

INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data on Buffer Pool usage

INNODB_CMP

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data on compression

INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing statistical data on InnoDB compression per index

INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing statistical data for compression per index while resetting cumulated counts

INNODB_CMP_RESET

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data for compression while resetting cumulated counts

INNODB_CMPMEM

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data for the compressed Buffer Pool

INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data for the compressed Buffer Pool while resetting cumulative counts

INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing auxiliary data on entries being deleted from FullText indexes

INNODB_FT_CONFIG

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on metadata for FullText indexes

INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing a list of the default stopwords to use in FullText index searches

INNODB_FT_DELETED

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on rows removed from FullText indexes to filter results

INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on rows recently added to FullText indexes

INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on FullText indexes

INNODB_LOCK_WAITS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing information on locks blocking transactions

INNODB_LOCKS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on conflicting locks

INNODB_METRICS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on performance metrics

INNODB_MUTEXES

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on mutex and rw lock waits

INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing information on system columns

INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on system data files

INNODB_SYS_FIELDS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on fields used in indexes

INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on Foreign Keys

INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on columns used in Foreign Keys

INNODB_SYS_INDEXES

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on indexes

INNODB_SYS_SEMAPHORE_WAITS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on current semaphore waits

INNODB_SYS_TABLES

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on InnoDB tables

INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on InnoDB tablespaces

INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing statistical data on table status

INNODB_SYS_VIRTUAL

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on temporary tables

INNODB_TABLESPACES_ENCRYPTION

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing data on encrypted tablespaces

INNODB_TABLESPACES_SCRUBBING

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing information on data scrubbing for encrypted tablespaces

INNODB_TRX

Built-in Information Schema table plugin for InnoDB, providing information on transactions

LOCALES

locales.so

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing data on locales supported by the server

MEMORY

Built-in plugin for Memory, an in-memory storage engine. Used internally for temporary tables and some SQL processing.

METADATA_LOCK_INFO

metadata_lock_info.so

Built-in Information Schema table plugin, providing data on active metadata locks

MRG_MyISAM

Built-in plugin for Merge, a storage engine used in combining MyISAM tables

MyISAM

This built-in plugin implements MyISAM, a legacy non-transactional storage engine used for system tables in older releases. The MyISAM storage engine is not supported in SkySQL.

mysql_native_password

Built-in authentication plugin, validates a password hash encrypted using SHA-1

mysql_old_password

Built-in authentication plugin, validates against an encrypted password hash

pam

auth_pam.so

Authentication plugin, validates user credentials against a PAM-based authentication service, such as LDAP or Active Directory. Requires the installing of additional packages to use.

pam

auth_pam_v1.so

Authentication plugin, validates user credentials against a PAM-based authentication service, such as LDAP or Active Directory. Requires the installing of additional packages to use. Legacy version 1.0 library for use with MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4. Use auth_pam.so for the current release.

partition

Built-in plugin for partitioning data across multiple tablespaces

password_reuse_check

password_reuse_check.so

Prevent password reuse

PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

Built-in plugin for the Performance Schema, a database used to collect information on Server performance and health

QUERY_RESPONSE_TIME

query_response_time.so

Information Schema table plugin, providing data on how long it takes queries to execute. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, but requires additional configuration to enable.

QUERY_RESPONSE_TIME_AUDIT

query_response_time.so

Auditing plugin for auditing query response times, provides similar functionality to Slow Query Log. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, but requires additional configuration to enable.

ROCKSDB

ha_rocksdb.so

Plugin for MyRocks, a write and dist optimized storage engine. Requires the installation of additional packages to use. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_CF_OPTIONS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing data on RocksDB column family options. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_CFSTATS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing statistical data on RocksDB column families. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_COMPACTION_STATS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing statistical data on RocksDB compaction. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_DBSTATS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing statistical data on RocksDB database usage. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_DDL

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing the data dictionary for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_DEADLOCK

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing transactional information for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_GLOBAL_INFO

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing global information for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_INDEX_FILE_MAP

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing a map to index files for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_LOCKS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing locking information on RocksDB tables. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_PERF_CONTEXT

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing performance context statistics for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_PERF_CONTEXT_GLOBAL

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing all performance context statistics for RocksDB. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_SST_PROPS

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing data on SST properties. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

ROCKSDB_TRX

ha_rocksdb.so

Information Schema table plugin for MyRocks, providing data on transactions. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

S3

ha_s3.so

Plugin for S3, a storage engine that reads from and writes to Amazon S3. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, but is disabled by default.

SEQUENCE

Built-in plugin used to generate virtual tables filled with sequential values

SERVER_AUDIT

server_audit.so

Auditing plugin for the community release of MariaDB Audit

SERVER_AUDIT

server_audit2.so

Auditing plugin for MariaDB Enterprise AuditMariaDB Enterprise Audit, ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server installations, requires configuration to use

simple_password_check

simple_password_check.so

Built-in password validation plugin, used to ensure that user passwords meet minimum policy specifications

SPIDER

ha_spider.so

Plugin for the Enterprise Spider storage engine, which is used for table federation and table sharding. Requires installing additional packages to use on some platforms. Requires additional configuration to install and use.

SPIDER_ALLOC_MEM

ha_spider.so

Information Schema table plugin for Spider, providing data on memory allocation. Installed with the Spider storage engine.

SPIDER_WRAPPER_PROTOCOLS

ha_spider.so

Available wrapper protocols of Spider

SQL_ERROR_LOG

sql_errlog.so

Auditing plugin for collecting error messages generated by SQL statements. Ships with MariaDB Enterprise Server, but requires additional configuration to use.

SQL_SEQUENCE

Built-in plugin for Sequence, a storage engine used to create numeric sequences in virtual tables

TABLE_STATISTICS

Built-in Information Schema plugin, providing statistical data on table usage

unix_socket

Built-in authentication plugin, validates user against the Unix socket of the operating system user

USER_STATISTICS

Built-in Information Schema plugin, providing data on user activity

user_variables

Built-in Information Schema plugin, providing data on user-defined variables

wsrep

Built in Galera Replication plugin, used in multi-primary replication for MariaDB Enterprise Cluster

The following Plugins are not present in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4.31-21 but are present in one or more older 10.4 ES versions. Click on an item to see its details, including when it was removed.

Plugin

Library

Description

Columnstore

ha_columnstore.so

ColumnStore storage engine

COLUMNSTORE_COLUMNS

ha_columnstore.so

An information schema plugin to list ColumnStore columns

COLUMNSTORE_EXTENTS

ha_columnstore.so

An information schema plugin to list ColumnStore extents

COLUMNSTORE_FILES

ha_columnstore.so

An information schema plugin to list ColumnStore files

COLUMNSTORE_TABLES

ha_columnstore.so

An information schema plugin to list ColumnStore tables