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Expanding Monty’s Role at MariaDB

Picture this: OSCON, 2008. A sumo wrestling ring, two database giants ready to tussle. On one side, Michael “Monty” Widenius, … Continued

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ALTER TABLE is now universally online

MariaDB Community Server 11.2 release series brings ALTER TABLE with a no-headache process of table schema change for many cases, … Continued

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A Peek Under the Hood of Distributed SQL Engines

The goal of this article is to provide a high level description of what it means to be a distributed … Continued

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Parallelize Your Command-line Replica with GTID-aware mariadb-binlog (part 2)

Enhancing the throughput for replicating database transactions is a key concern for a MariaDB replica, as the number of transactions … Continued

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Build Your Own Command-line Replica with GTID-aware mariadb-binlog (part 1)

This blog post begins a three part series to create and customize your own asynchronous MariaDB replication client. With the … Continued

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Call for Presentations Is Open – MariaDB OpenWorks 2023

Over the next few weeks, we want to hear your ideas for sessions and topics to cover at our next … Continued

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Dissecting the architecture of Google AlloyDB, Amazon Aurora, and MariaDB Xpand

Welcome AlloyDB Recently, Google announced their AlloyDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS) product, whose design looks strikingly similar to that of AWS Aurora … Continued

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How to benchmark MariaDB/MySQL using Java connector

Using the benchbase framework to easily launch “real-world” Java benchmarks and micro-benchmarks

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Crash-safe DDL of InnoDB tables in MariaDB Server 10.6

MariaDB 10.6.1, introduces atomic DDL (Data Definition Language) operations to make them crash-safe, even if the server crashes in the middle of an operation.

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MariaDB Connector C++ Now RC

C++ developers can now use the native MariaDB Connector/C++ to connect their applications to MariaDB Server on premises and in the cloud on MariaDB SkySQL.

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