OpenWorks Keynote: An Ocean of Possibilities with MariaDB
Posted on February 26, 2019 by MariaDB
The MariaDB OpenWorks user conference is underway, and the tone was set with a live-streamed keynote that emphasized how MariaDB customers can break away from the database status quo. When…
Read MoreStreaming Live: OpenWorks 2019 Keynote
Posted on February 22, 2019 by MariaDB
The MariaDB OpenWorks user conference is sold out, but even if you didn’t score a ticket you can still get a taste of the show. We’ll be live-streaming the keynote…
Read MoreQ&A: Everything You Need to Know About the MariaDB Certification…
Posted on February 21, 2019 by MariaDB
In this third part of our pre-OpenWorks Q&A series, we’re talking with Catherine Trejo, who attended the 2018 MariaDB user conference as a customer and earned her MariaDB Certified Database…
Read MoreQ&A: Exploring Modern Database Infrastructure in the MariaDB OpenWorks Operations…
Posted on February 19, 2019 by MariaDB
This is part two in our continuing Q&A series with key MariaDB stakeholders in the lead-up to the 2019 MariaDB OpenWorks conference. Today, we’re talking with Austin Rutherford, VP of…
Read MoreQ&A: Peeking Below the Surface of the Product Track at…
Posted on February 12, 2019 by MariaDB
Because there’s so much more to a user conference than what you see on the agenda, over the next few days (leading up to the start of MariaDB OpenWorks) we’ll…
Read MoreAnnouncing MariaDB MaxScale 2.3 GA
Posted on January 16, 2019 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce the general availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.3.2. MariaDB MaxScale is the key application-facing component for MariaDB Platform X3, also announced today. MariaDB MaxScale serves as…
Read More2018 In Review: 7 MariaDB Milestones You May Have Missed
Posted on December 28, 2018 by MariaDB
Thanks to our growing users and customers, MariaDB continues to increase in popularity around the world. Matt Asay at InfoWorld recently wrote about why MariaDB is thriving, citing MariaDB’s climb…
Read MoreAnnouncing MariaDB ColumnStore 1.2.1 Beta
Posted on November 14, 2018 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce the beta release of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.2.1. Beta is an important time in our release and we encourage you to download this release today! Please…
Read More10 Database Tuning Tips for Peak Workloads
Posted on November 14, 2018 by MariaDB
Is your database well equipped to handle peak workloads? As we head into the holiday season and the start of a new year, now is a great time to ensure…
Read MoreMariaDB OpenWorks 2019 – Early-Bird Registration Now Open
Posted on October 10, 2018 by MariaDB
MariaDB OpenWorks, our 2019 user and developer conference, takes place in February – but now is the best time to get your passes. Early-bird registration recently opened. Don’t miss this…
Read MoreWhat Does It Take to Achieve Freedom from Oracle? 5…
Posted on September 12, 2018 by MariaDB
Financial Network, Inc. (FNI) was looking to evolve its credit strategy and loan-origination services after more than 30 years in business – but the “astronomical” fees they were paying to…
Read MoreACID Compliance: What It Means and Why You Should Care
Posted on July 29, 2018 by MariaDB
What is ACID Compliance? The presence of four components — atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability — can ensure that a database transaction is completed in a timely manner. When databases…
Read MoreAsk the Experts – Extended Q&A on MariaDB TX 3.0…
Posted on July 12, 2018 by MariaDB
Until the recent release of MariaDB TX 3.0, several enterprise database features were available only from proprietary vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. It’s no wonder that our first…
Read MoreThe Ease of Migrating to MariaDB TX Using New Oracle…
Posted on May 24, 2018 by MariaDB
One of the central themes of MariaDB TX 3.0 is reducing the cost, reusing established skill sets and increasing the efficiency, speed and technical viability of migrations from complex, proprietary…
Read MoreClustrix 9 brings new features to the leading scale-out SQL…
Posted on May 17, 2018 by MariaDB
Last fall, we announced that our most recent generally-available release, ClustrixDB 9, supports deploying a single database across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs). With this release, Clustrix continues its commitment to…
Read MoreGoogle Cloud Platform Price Performance for Scale-out Database Deployment
Posted on May 2, 2018 by MariaDB
For years the Clustrix performance lab has been conducting performance benchmarks to assure ClustrixDB maintains its linear scalability in multiple environments, including the cloud. It’s been public knowledge for a…
Read MoreMetro Area Clustering: Deployment and Configuration
Posted on March 18, 2018 by MariaDB
This is the second blog in our series about ClustrixDB 9’s new Zones feature that supports creating Metro Area Clusters. If you missed the first blog “Database Metro Area Clustering Across…
Read MoreNew MariaDB AX Release Featuring MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1.3 GA
Posted on February 24, 2018 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce a new MariaDB AX release featuring MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1.3. This is the largest MariaDB ColumnStore maintenance release to date – the streaming data adapters are…
Read MoreMariaDB MaxScale 2.2.2 with Built-in Failover Management Reaches GA!
Posted on February 20, 2018 by MariaDB
We’re excited to announce MariaDB MaxScale 2.2, an advanced database proxy for MariaDB, is now GA. It introduces new features for replication cluster failover management, high availability of MaxScale, security…
Read MoreIntroducing MariaDB MaxScale 2.2.1 Beta – automation, security and more!
Posted on January 16, 2018 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce that 2.2.1 beta of MariaDB MaxScale, the next generation database proxy for MariaDB is now available. Beta is an important time in our release and we…
Read MoreMariaDB Holiday Reflections and Gratitude
Posted on December 28, 2017 by MariaDB
As we wrap up 2017, we want to take a moment to reflect on the past year. We’ve seen tremendous support from our community, customers and partners – and for…
Read More5 Simple Steps to Get Started with MariaDB and Tableau
Posted on December 13, 2017 by MariaDB
For organizations in today’s data-driven economy, easy and fast access to data and insight into data are crucial to stay competitive. In order to leverage the insight from data, companies…
Read MoreBilly Mobile Gets Fast Data-Driven Insights With MariaDB ColumnStore and…
Posted on December 13, 2017 by MariaDB
This is a guest post by Geoff Cleaves, Business Intelligence Manager at Billy Mobile. At startups, we acutely feel the technology challenges of running a business. The consequences of implementing…
Read MoreThe Binlog Server Common Identity
Posted on December 1, 2017 by MariaDB
The “identity” of the binlog server layer from the slave server’s point of view is something that could be modified in order to provide all slaves such common parameters for…
Read MoreReal-time Data Streaming with MariaDB AX
Posted on November 21, 2017 by MariaDB
When we started working on the big data and distributed columnar technology through MariaDB ColumnStore, the focus has been to help our customers get the most value out of their…
Read MoreAnnouncing MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1.0 Beta
Posted on September 18, 2017 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce that today we are releasing 1.1.0 beta software of MariaDB ColumnStore, the high performance, columnar storage engine for large scale analytics on MariaDB. Beta is…
Read MoreClustrixDB Query Optimization
Posted on August 16, 2017 by MariaDB
In this blog we will focus on how ClustrixDB performs query optimization. One of the reasons ClustrixDB exists is because multiple people had asked our founders if RDBMSs can scale…
Read MoreSensitive Data Masking with MariaDB MaxScale
Posted on August 14, 2017 by MariaDB
Protecting personal and sensitive data, and complying with security and privacy regulations, is high priority for organizations. This includes personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), payment card information…
Read MoreThe ClustrixDB Query Evaluation Model
Posted on August 10, 2017 by MariaDB
Query Evaluation Model Recently we’ve started to dig into the internals of ClustrixDB, specifically How ClustrixDB Accomplishes Horizontal Scaling of Both Writes & Reads Without Sharding. Next, we dug into…
Read MoreMariaDB Server 10.2: JSON/GeoJSON & GIS
Posted on August 4, 2017 by MariaDB
Starting with MariaDB Server 10.2, new JSON/GeoJSON functionality was introduced. Virtual columns also received improvements. With version 10.2 tons of new functionality was added and many of the limitations previously experienced…
Read MoreThe ClustrixDB Rebalancer: Automatically Distributing & Balancing Data
Posted on July 28, 2017 by MariaDB
ClustrixDB is a MySQL-compatible ACID RDBMS that linearly scales out both writes and reads. Clustrix has created many architectural innovations over the years that have made this possible. This week we…
Read MoreEnabling GTIDs for Server Replication in MariaDB Server
Posted on July 26, 2017 by MariaDB
I originally wrote this post in 2014, after the release of MariaDB Server 10.0. Most of what was in that original post still applies, but I’ve made some tweaks and…
Read MoreHigh Availability with Multi-Source Replication in MariaDB Server
Posted on July 26, 2017 by MariaDB
Multi-source replication is a handy way to simplify your high availability database setup – especially as compared to the regular MySQL replication approach. Let’s look at how it works. (Note:…
Read MoreDo You Need Five 9s?
Posted on July 20, 2017 by MariaDB
Finding the right high availability strategy for your business When it comes to database high availability, how many 9s do you really need? The minimum for most organizations is three…
Read MoreNew in Microsoft Azure: MariaDB TX 2.0
Posted on July 11, 2017 by MariaDB
Now in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace: MariaDB TX 2.0 with MariaDB Server 10.2, configured in a MariaDB Galera Cluster topology, with MariaDB MaxScale 2.1, and Azure Managed Disks. What is…
Read MorePoorly Tuned Databases Exact a Heavy Toll: 3 MariaDB Tuning…
Posted on June 27, 2017 by MariaDB
Optimizing your database performance is important, but it often falls by the wayside in the bustle of daily business. How big a deal is it? Let’s look at potential consequences…
Read MoreSecure Binlog Server: Encrypted binary Logs and SSL Communication
Posted on June 21, 2017 by MariaDB
The 2.1.3 GA release of MariaDB MaxScale, introduces the following key features for the secure setup of MaxScale Binlog Server: The binlog cache files in the MaxScale host can now…
Read MoreWhat’s New in MariaDB MaxScale 2.1
Posted on May 23, 2017 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce the 2.1 GA release of MariaDB MaxScale, the next-generation database proxy for MariaDB. MariaDB MaxScale 2.1 introduces the following key new capabilities: Dynamic Configuration Server, monitor…
Read MoreMariaDB Analytics Tutorial: 5 Steps to Get Started in 10…
Posted on May 11, 2017 by MariaDB
Looking for an easy way to get started with analytics? MariaDB ColumnStore provides a simple, open and scalable analytics solution. It leverages a pluggable storage engine to handle analytic workloads…
Read MoreMariaDB User Conference M|17 Recap – Video Recordings Now Available
Posted on May 3, 2017 by MariaDB
Thank you to everyone who joined us at our first-ever MariaDB user conference in New York City on April 11-12. Thank you also to our sponsors for their generous support:…
Read MoreGet Started with MariaDB on Docker: Q&A
Posted on April 28, 2017 by MariaDB
Our live webinar on how to build and scale an application with MariaDB on Docker was so well attended that we weren’t able to get to all the audience questions…
Read MoreWebinar – Get Started with MariaDB on Docker
Posted on April 20, 2017 by MariaDB
While containers can be great ephemeral vessels for your applications, your data needs to be able to survive containers coming and going, maintain its availability and reliability, and grow when…
Read MoreGo Big with Analytics at M|17
Posted on March 23, 2017 by MariaDB
Analytics is at the heart of extracting value out of data. Adopting an effective analytics strategy can be a distinctive competitive advantage, particularly with the growth of big data and…
Read MoreWebyog – M|17 Sponsor
Posted on March 8, 2017 by MariaDB
Authored by Shree Nair, Product Manager, Webyog We are very excited to sponsor MariaDB’s inaugural user conference, M|17! It’s a great opportunity to introduce Webyog to the MariaDB community, and…
Read MoreReplication Manager, Flashback and Much More!
Posted on March 7, 2017 by MariaDB
Note: Replication Manager is developed and maintained by community members. It can be used with MariaDB Server, but it is not supported with an enterprise subscription. MariaDB 10.2.4 has fantastic…
Read MoreGoogle Spanner vs Amazon Aurora: Who’ll Get the Enterprise?
Posted on February 28, 2017 by MariaDB
Google Spanner versus Amazon Aurora In July 2015, Amazon delivered Aurora, the AWS-only Enterprise RDBMS they’d been claiming since November 2014 would have “5x Enterprise performance at 1/5 the price.”…
Read MoreIntroducing MariaDB MaxScale 2.1.0 Beta
Posted on February 16, 2017 by MariaDB
We are happy to announce that MariaDB MaxScale 2.1.0 beta is released today. MariaDB MaxScale is the next generation database proxy for MariaDB. Beta is an important time in our release and…
Read MoreMariaDB is Coming to a City Near You!
Posted on February 8, 2017 by MariaDB
Join us for one of our full-day roadshows coming to a city near you! MariaDB is hosting educational roadshows across North America to showcase exciting new products and solutions, and…
Read MoreGeneral Availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0
Posted on December 14, 2016 by MariaDB
I am happy to announce the general availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0! MariaDB ColumnStore is a powerful open source columnar storage engine that unites transactional and analytic processing with a…
Read MoreA Look Inside MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.6 GA
Posted on December 14, 2016 by MariaDB
Today, MariaDB ColumnStore has reached a major milestone – MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0 is now GA with the release of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.6 GA. The journey of MariaDB ColumnStore began in…
Read MoreInvitation to Join MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.4 Beta!
Posted on October 28, 2016 by MariaDB
Today, MariaDB ColumnStore, MariaDB’s distributed columnar storage engine for analytics workload, is reaching its next major milestone – the availability of MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.4 Beta software release. MariaDB ColumnStore 1.0.4 is built by…
Read MoreWebinar – Defending Your Database
Posted on October 18, 2016 by MariaDB
Today’s IT infrastructure is vulnerable to a range of attacks and threats. How do you safeguard your database against them? By learning and using best practices, and choosing a database with…
Read MoreLeveraging MariaDB in NEOs Distributed Storage Architecture
Posted on October 12, 2016 by MariaDB
The following is a guest blog post from Sven Franck, marketing manager at Nexedi, one of the largest OSS publishers in Europe with most solutions based on prior research projects.…
Read MoreIntroducing MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 GA
Posted on October 3, 2016 by MariaDB
Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.0, our next generation database proxy. This new version includes important new functionality that integrates data streaming with Kafka and other data sources,…
Read MoreWebinar – Better, Faster DevOps? Learn how with MaxScale 2.0
Posted on September 28, 2016 by MariaDB
Please join Roger Bodamer, MariaDB’s Chief Product Officer, on Thursday, October 6 to learn about the exciting new features in MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 that enable rapid innovation for web applications without…
Read MoreConfiguring MariaDB Master and MariaDB MaxScale for Data Streaming
Posted on August 26, 2016 by MariaDB
In the previous blog, I introduced Data Streaming with MariaDB MaxScale. In this post, I will show you how to configure a MariaDB Master server and MariaDB MaxScale to stream binary log…
Read MoreInvitation to Join MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta!
Posted on August 15, 2016 by MariaDB
Today, MariaDB MaxScale, the database proxy for MariaDB, is reaching its next major milestone – the availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta software release. Beta is an important time in…
Read MoreMariaDB 10.1 Now Available on Amazon RDS
Posted on June 3, 2016 by MariaDB
Starting today, customers can launch MariaDB version 10.1 instances on Amazon RDS. They can also upgrade their existing Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instances from version 10.0 to 10.1 using…
Read MoreMariaDB and Docker use cases, Part 1
Posted on May 9, 2016 by MariaDB
Some of the most common questions asked by our users are regarding MariaDB support in Docker, and in particular how it can be used in specific development or production deployments. This series…
Read MoreColumnStore Architecture & Use-case
Posted on May 2, 2016 by MariaDB
In the previous blog, I’ve talked about, Why is ColumnStore important?. Let’s look at MariaDB ColumnStore architecture and use-cases. MariaDB ColumnStore is built on a three-tier scalable architecture that supports…
Read MoreBusiness Scalability, Operational Efficiency and Competitive Edge with MariaDB MaxScale…
Posted on January 15, 2015 by MariaDB
When I started my career in early nineties, the Internet, the open source software movement and the Linux operating system were in their infancy and MariaDB and MySQL did not…
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