What is MariaDB 10.0?

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DateReleaseStatusRelease NotesChangelog
6 Feb 2013MariaDB 10.0.1AlphaRelease NotesChangelog
12 Nov 2012MariaDB 10.0.0AlphaRelease NotesChangelog

MariaDB 10.0 is the development version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else.

Implemented Features

Features that are in a release, or in the source tree on launchpad.

It is important to note that MariaDB 10.0.1 is now available, and there is a good amount of information on what is available in the release listed: What does MariaDB 10.0.1 include – available now.

New Features

New Features Re-implemented from a similar MySQL feature

  • MDEV-452 CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as DEFAULT for DATETIME columns

New Features Backported from MySQL 5.6

  • New InnoDB — from MySQL 5.6.5
  • Performance schema — from MySQL 5.6.5 (without host cache)
  • Optimized read only transaction (for InnoDB). This includes support for TRANSACTION READ ONLY.
  • ORDER BY ... LIMIT optimization
  • MDEV-3860 backport --plugin-load-add

Pushed to the tree but not yet released

Features that will definitely be in the final 10.0 release

  • Support for automatic updating of timestamps in DATETIME
  • Memory tables with efficient VARCHAR and BLOB support
  • Online ALTER TABLE

See Also

The following features may or may not be in 10.0. It depends on if we can find a sponsors for these or if someone in the community will help us with developing them:

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