MariaDB-related links in November 2013

Posted on 1/12/2013, 4:40 am, by Colin Charles, under MariaDB, MySQL.

Another month has come to an end. If you’re looking to be updated on MariaDB content on a regular basis, don’t forget to be on Twitter (@mariadb), Facebook (MariaDB.dbms), or Google Plus (+mariadb).

There was a question on Quora – Is Facebook considering ditching MySQL in favor of MariaDB like Google did? The best answer really comes from Harrison Fisk, so I’ll leave you to it to read. The older link made its way on social media about Wikipedia_$ mv MySQL MariaDB.

MariaDB 10.0 went into beta (with the 10.0.5 release). We made a 10.0.6 release shortly afterwards to fix some bugs. One cool thing to note — the blog post from Ian Gulliver at Google about how Google is making use of MariaDB today.

The MariaDB Audit plugin is now GA – yes, you have to register to download it, but it’s worth it. There is also a webminar on this come Dec 5 which can be worth attending.

There is a new book out by Daniel Bartholomew: Getting Started with MariaDB. I fully intend to read & review it soon (you can also get this from O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf).

Navicat has announced Navicat for MariaDB for all your GUI needs on Windows, Mac or Linux. There is a free trial, or it costs in various prices for their non-commercial, standard or enterprise edition.

The MariaDB Enterprise Beta program started. I myself signed up for the beta to give it a spin. From what I gather most people that signed up qualified to give it a go. It is likely to go GA in mid-December. It is opensource software. Look at the getting started guide for more.

And in case you didn’t already notice, the Knowledge Base has had a redesign. There currently exists 3,165 articles in English licensed under the CC-BY-SA and GNU GFDL.

Tags: audit, audit plugin, book, facebook, getting started with mariadb, google, knowledgebase, MariaDB, mariadb enterprise, navicat, webminar

10 Comments

Jan Steinman says:

3/12/2013 at 7:30 pm

Anyone recommend a good MacOS binary?

It won’t compile for me under Snow Leopard or Lion, and my ancient hardware won’t run newer versions.
- colincharles says:
  
  4/12/2013 at 1:19 am
  
  Jan Steinman – what OS are you running?
  
  Can you use homebrew? brew install mariadb works for both 5.5 & 10
  - Jan Steinman says:
    
    4/12/2013 at 4:01 pm
    
    I’m running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on my server. I did not upgrade to Lion since Apple did away with MySQL, and I didn’t feel like porting to Postgress.
    
    I installed homebrew, and it’s throwing an error on 5.5:
    
    # brew search aria
    aria2 mariadb
    # brew install mariadb
    …
    ==> Installing mariadb
    ==> Downloading http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2.8/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-5.2.8.tar.gz
    curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
    Error: Download failed: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2.8/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-5.2.8.tar.gz
    
    I’ve read the man page, and it is not clear how I get mariadb 10 instead of 5.5. It’s 10 that I’m after.
  - Jan Steinman says:
    
    4/12/2013 at 4:01 pm
    
    I’m running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on my server. I did not upgrade to Lion since Apple did away with MySQL, and I didn’t feel like porting to Postgress.
    
    I installed homebrew, and it’s throwing an error on 5.5:
    
    # brew search aria
    aria2 mariadb
    # brew install mariadb
    …
    ==> Installing mariadb
    ==> Downloading http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2.8/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-5.2.8.tar.gz
    curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
    Error: Download failed: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2.8/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-5.2.8.tar.gz
    
    I’ve read the man page, and it is not clear how I get mariadb 10 instead of 5.5. It’s 10 that I’m after.
    - colincharles says:
      
      5/12/2013 at 10:49 am
      
      i wrote about this a while back – http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2013/06/11/homebrew-mac-os-x-and-mariadb-10-0-series
      
      brew unlink mariadb
      brew install –devel mariadb
  - Jan Steinman says:
    
    4/12/2013 at 4:25 pm
    
    Okay, I figured out how to get 10, but I still have a 404 on the download. It complains that I have MacPorts or Fink installed, but it’s hard to understand why that would make a curl download 404:
    
    # brew install homebrew/versions/mariadb10
    …
    ==> Installing mariadb10
    ==> Downloading http://mirror3.layerjet.com/mariadb/mariadb-10.0.3/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-10.0.3.tar.gz
    curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
    Error: Download failed: http://mirror3.layerjet.com/mariadb/mariadb-10.0.3/kvm-tarbake-jaunty-x86/mariadb-10.0.3.tar.gz
    - Jan Steinman says:
      
      4/12/2013 at 4:29 pm
      
      Clicking on the download link above in Chrome and Safari also throws a 404. Should I report this to someone? It would appear that the formula refers to the wrong file; it’s trying for 10.0.3, when the latest is 10.0.6.
      - colincharles says:
        
        5/12/2013 at 10:48 am
        
        Seems the mirror (layerjet) decided that it would drop the old files. thats not a good thing of the mirror.
        
        yes, its also known that homebrew doesn’t ship the latest beta (is there a reason you don’t want to use the production ready 5.5?). there is a bug on jira about this, with aims to fix in 10.0.7 – https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5314
andre says:

27/2/2014 at 6:13 am

You can check one more tool – Valentina Studio http://www.valentina-db.com/en/valentina-studio-overview 14 Feb 2013 in the 5.0 version added support of mySQL/mariaDB , as well as SQLite, PostgreSQL. It is FREE. Works on Mac, Win and Linux. Includes not only db management but powerfull reports that work again on 3 OS.
Haniya Ahmad says:

27/5/2015 at 8:27 am

I installed homebrew, and it’s throwing an error on 5.5: :( anonymous
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