News reports related to MariaDB

Here are news articles and press releases related to MariaDB, organised in reverse chronological order. There is also a bunch of case studies from MariaDB users.

2013

• Monty has last laugh as distros abandon MySQL - 04 Feb 2013 - ITWire by Sam Varghese. An opinion piece by Sam on how MariaDB is gaining popularity.

• Oracle who? Fedora & openSUSE will replace MySQL with MariaDB - 31 Jan 2013 - ZDNet by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork--MariaDB.

• Fedora 19: MariaDB instead of MySQL, but no Btrfs - 31 Jan 2013 - H-online - by fab. Story about how MariaDB is chosen over MySQL at the FESCO meeting.

• Connectors, controversy and the LGPL - 29 Jan 2013 - H-online - by Dj Walker-Morgan. Well rounded article about the connectors and why there should be no licensing controversy around it.

• openSUSE Dumps MySQL Makes MariaDB Default Database - 25 Jan 2013 - Muktware - by Swapnil Bhartiya

• OpenSUSE also considers switching from MySQL to MariaDB - 23 Jan 2013 - ZDNet - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

• Fedora Linux considering switching out MySQL for MariaDB - 22 Jan 2013 - ZDNet - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

• Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB - Slashdot - 22 Jan 2013

• Fedora Looks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB - 21 Jan 2013 - Phoronix - by Michael Larabel

• Don't Write Off Relational Databases For Big Data Just Yet - 21 Jan 2013 - readwrite - an article by Dmitry Sotnikov featuring opinions by Michael Widenius.

2012

• If MySQL falters, what do you replace it with? - 20 December 2012 - an article by Robin Miller featuring MariaDB, SkySQL, and more.

• Wikipedia moving from MySQL to MariaDB - 17 December 2012 - an article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in ZDNet about the recent tests Wikipedia is doing to migrate to MariaDB.

• The MariaDB Foundation: A turning point for MySQL - 14 December 2012 - by Simon Phipps

• MariaDB 5.5 in production for English Wikipedia - 12 December 2012 - There is also a hacker news thread.

• Web Served, part 4: Get your database on - 11 December 2012 - by Lee Hutchinson

• MariaDB steps out from MySQL's shadow - 5 December 2012 - by Simon Phipps

• MySQL founders launch MariaDB Foundation at Oracle - 5 December 2012 - by Gavin Clarke

• Open-source MariaDB, a MySQL fork, challenges Oracle - 4 December 2012 - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

• Network world tested 6 free databases, MariaDB wins the test - 3 December 2012

• New open source MariaDB drivers for C and Java - 29 November 2012

• Monty on broken MySQL promises: Oracle's going to fork it up - 29 November 2012 - an article by Gavin Clarke about Monty's thought's on Oracle's promises about MySQL to the EU.

• WiredTree Adds MariaDB for Faster MySQL Database Performance - 27 November 2012 - press release from WiredTree about why they've chosen MariaDB.

• The Epoch Times: Ireland the Source for Europe’s Techies - 17 October 2012 - by Martin Murphy. An interview conducted with Widenius while he was at the Dublin Web Summit.

• InfoQ: Cassandra Storage Engine for MariaDB - 10 October 2012 - by Jonathan Allen on the new CassandraSE storage engine.

• Forbes: Tokutek Makes Big Data Dance - 2 October 2012 - by Peter Cohan on Tokutek's new release which they make for MariaDB and MySQL.

• Oracle Claims MySQL IS Safe With Them - 27 September 2012 - by Simon Phipps

• Infor Collaborates with Red Hat - 26 September 2012 - by InfoR, on how they've chosen Red Hat & MariaDB.

• SkySQL launches Cloud SQL Suite and Enterprise Suite - 25 September 2012 -

• French government to use PostgreSQL and LibreOffice in free software adoption push - 25 September 2012 - in Computerworld UK by Peter Sayer. The important part is: "While the report clearly favors PostgreSQL for database applications, it recommends watching the future evolution of MySQL, MariaDB, SkySQL and the various "NoSQL" code bases."

• I-Programmer: Oracle Making MySQL Less Open - 20 August 2012 - by Kay Ewbank

• TechCrunch: Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL - 18 August 2012 - by Alex Williams. This article even brought down the MariaDB.org site for some time as we had to increase memory, CPU & bandwidth on the VM.

• SDTimes: Java goes inclusive - 17 August 2012 - by Alex Handy about how Java and MySQL are getting a little more closed.

• LWN: MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? - 17 August 2012 - by Jon Corbet

• MySQL vor unruhiger Zukunft - 13 August 2012 - in Computerwoche, in German, about SkySQL and MariaDB.

• The Hacking Business Model - 25 July 2012 - on Forbes.com about The Hacking Business Model & an interview with Michael "Monty" Widenius.

• First openSUSE 12.2 release candidate arrives - 13 July 2012 - on H-Online about openSUSE including MariaDB.

• Mageia Linux Is A Distro On The Rise - 4 July 2012 - on ComputerWorld by Katherine Noyes. Great quote: "Notably, this Linux distro makes use of MariaDB in place of Oracle's MySQL database."

• MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source - 13 April 2012 - on Ars Technica by Sean Gallagher

• MariaDB 5.5.23 com melhor desempenho - 13 April 2012 - in Brazilian Portuguese at Linux New Media

• MariaDB 5.5 Database is Generally Available (GA) and Ready for Critical Production Usage - 13 April 2012 - on Yahoo! news when the press release was made, also made it to SFGate newspaper.

• MariaDB 5.5.23 arrives with performance improvements - 12 April 2012 - by Christopher von Eitzen (crve) in H-online

• “Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta - 4 April 2012 by Canonical

• Parallels Summit 2012: The cloud world in 2022 - 16 February 2012 - choice quote: "He also believes the creator of MySQL’s latest offering, MariaDB, will continue to steal market share from its predecessor, thanks to lower costs and more advanced functionality." - Serguei Beloussov, Chairman & Chief Architect, Parallels

2011

• Latinux Cluster is the project leader for the translation of MariaDB documentation - 29 December 2011 by the team at Latinux.

• Faster subqueries in MariaDB - 28 July 2011 by the editor of H-online Dj Walker-Morgan.

• MariaDB 5.3 beschleunigt Abfragen - 28 July 2011 - in German, "MariaDB 5.3 accelerates queries" by Jörg Thoma.

• OSCON Data attracts upstart DB companies - 28 July 2011

• MySQL Founder Announces MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta - 27 July 2011

• MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta Released with Large Number of Features & Additions - 26 July 2011 - SFGate: San Francisco Chronicle

• Press Release: MariaDB now available as a hosted database via Jelastic cloud platform - 26 July 2011 - MariaDB database as a service on Jelastic is now available. Jelastic is a Java-based platform as a service (PAAS) provider.

• Five Things You Need to Know About MySQL - 27 May 2011 - "MySQL will live on no matter what Oracle does."

• SkySQL, a technology company specializing in databases in Korea - 27 May 2011 - written in Korean, and has a focus on the SkySQL Roadshow in Korea. Includes a picture of Kaj Arno (speaking, SkySQL), Daniel Saito (SkySQL) and Colin Charles (Monty Program).

• MySQL/MariaDB related technology company SkySQL offers the best solution for Korea - 27 May 2011 - written in Korean, and has reference to the SkySQL Roadshow in Korea.

• NoSQL & MariaDB via Dynamic Columns - 27 May 2011 - written in Japanese, and refers to the dynamic columns feature in MariaDB.

• MariaDB comes to 64-bit Windows and Natty Narwhal - 13 May 2011 - Focused on the release on MariaDB 5.2.6.