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Introducing SkySQL Power, the first tailored cloud DBaaS
Posted on May 13, 2020 by MariaDB
Until today, there have always been difficult trade-offs between running a database on public or private infrastructure (e.g., Amazon EC2)… Read more »
Lower cloud costs with custom instance types in SkySQL
Posted on May 13, 2020 by Shane Johnson
DBaaS offerings like Amazon RDS require you to choose from a predefined set of instance types, and they’re often based on the underlying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) instance types. In the case…
Read MoreMariaDB Server 10.5.3 RC now available
Posted on May 13, 2020 by Daniel Bartholomew
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Server 10.5.3. This is a Release Candidate (RC) release. While it should not be used in production, we invite active…
Read MoreMariaDB 10.4.13, 10.3.23, and others now available
Posted on May 13, 2020 by Daniel Bartholomew
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Server 10.4.13, 10.3.23, 10.2.32, 10.1.45, and 5.5.68. See the release notes and changelogs for details and visit mariadb.com/downloads to download.…
Read MoreIntroducing SkySQL Power, the first tailored cloud DBaaS
Posted on May 13, 2020 by Shane Johnson
Until today, there have always been difficult trade-offs between running a database on public or private infrastructure (e.g., Amazon EC2) and using a database-as-a-service (DBaaS). You can run databases on…
Read MoreMariaDB SQL Set Operators
Posted on April 23, 2020 by Anders Karlsson
Set operators are the SQL operators that deal with combining, in different ways, different result sets. Say you have two different SELECTs that you want to combine into a single…
Read MoreCreate beautiful data with MariaDB SkySQL and Apache Zeppelin
Posted on April 20, 2020 by Rob Hedgpeth
We recently announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, the first DBaaS (database-as-a-service) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform on an industry-leading, cloud-native architecture. One of the key…
Read MoreGetting Started with MariaDB SkySQL for Analytics
Posted on April 11, 2020 by Rob Hedgpeth
MariaDB recently announced SkySQL, the first DBaaS (database-as-a-service) to unlock the power of the MariaDB Platform. You’re likely familiar with the traditional row-based storage that RDBMS platforms offer, and while…
Read MoreSkyDBA On Your Side
Posted on April 10, 2020 by Nick Lamb
With the introduction of our SkySQL cloud database offering, we’ve launched SkyDBA to build on the success of the Remote DBA (RDBA) program that MariaDB has operated since the early…
Read MoreSkySQL and Life After Amazon Redshift, Part 2
Posted on April 6, 2020 by Shane Johnson
We already gutted Amazon Redshift in Part 1, we might as well finish with a fatality. Yes, the Mortal Kombat in the arcade at the roller rink kind of fatality.…
Read MoreSkySQL and Life After Amazon Redshift, Part 1
Posted on April 6, 2020 by Shane Johnson
If you needed an on-premises data warehouse today, would you choose a version of Postgres released in 2005 (Postgres 8.0.2)? How about a version of MySQL released in 2005 (MySQL…
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