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Hi, my name is Manuel and I am a student of Computer Science at the Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria.
I actually got some basic knowledge of databases from university. I even did a class in which we implemented a small database in Java for education purposes.
I am used to write C code, know object-oriented programming paradigms, but however are a little bit rusty in C++.
The one project, I'm most interested in is listed as "Self-Tuning Optimizer". I am acutally wondering if the learning algorithm to be inplemented is already known in detail or if I could develop one one my own (with respect to the well known machine learning algorithms)?
It actually sounds like a quite complex task. However, when implemented properly it might be a nice (possilby even big) advantage of MariaDB compared to other databases. Currently, I'm not familiar with the code of MariaDB. How long do you expect that I need on digging through the code before I know enough to be able to start coding (I know that's quite hard to predict, but I'd like to have some options from you)?
No, the learning algorithm is not known in details. Of course, I have a certain idea about what should be done and how — see MDEV-350 — but you are free to suggest a different approach and convince me that it is better.
This task doesn't need a deep understanding of the MariaDB optimizer, so one should be able to start coding quickly, certainly within a week.
Sound quite good. I will work out an application the next couple days, if thats OK with you?