Announcing MariaDB 10.0.0 Alpha
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.0! This is an alpha release. MariaDB 10.0 is […]
What Does the Media Have to Say About SkySQL’s Latest Release?
Media Highlights from the SkySQL Cloud Data Suite and SkySQL Enterprise Suite It’s been a little more than two weeks […]
MariaDB non-blocking client API and node.js
Last Summer I implemented a non-blocking client API in MariaDB, and it was included in the MariaDB 5.5 release. But […]
Announcing the Cassandra Storage Engine
We’re pleased to announce the first preview version of the Cassandra Storage Engine! The Cassandra Storage Engine (SE) allows access to Cassandra databases […]
Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?
About a week ago I was looking at MySQL 5.5.27, and noticed a curious thing. Despite the fact that the […]
Beware: MySQL 5.6.6’s ALTER TABLE … PASSWORD EXPIRE today for a free data buffet!
The MySQL 5.6.6 binaries were released today so I decided to take a look at the changelog. I was looking through […]
Heads up! No more query cache for partitioned tables as of MySQL 5.5.23.
A customer opened an issue recently to ask why the query cache wasn’t working after he upgraded to MySQL 5.5.25. […]
MariaDB 5.5 performance on Windows
We haven’t posted any Windows benchmarks for a while, and MariaDB for Windows contains some specific improvements which might not […]
How To Tune MariaDB Write Performance
This article describes how I tuned MariaDB to give the best write throughput with SSD based storage. When you have […]
5.5 Series Sysbench OLTP Results
A few days ago MariaDB, MySQL and Percona all three released new versions of the 5.5 server. So I decided […]