Posted on 1/10/2013, 9:23 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
About a month ago, I accepted an offer to work at SkySQL as the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB. So the change in affiliation announced in April 2013 has come to fruition. What this realistically means is that my email address changes to colin@mariadb.com, though I am still reachable at colin@mariadb.org even though I’m not part of the MariaDB Foundation.
There are a lot of structural changes that urgently need work and I expect to be spending quite some time on all this. In the meantime, read an update from the SkySQL CEO Patrik Sallner.
Posted on 19/8/2013, 10:16 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
One thing you might have missed from the MariaDB 10.0.4 Alpha release announcement is that SPIDER is finally in-tree, inside MariaDB. I’ve been watching the SPIDER engine for quite some years and fondly remember the time when Kentoku Shiba dressed up as spiderman at a MySQL Conference.
There are many factors that plays to an engines success. Distribution is one of them. Having a company backing it with services is another, so it is with great pleasure that I also show you Spiral Arms Ltd by Kentoku and Goto.
Overall, a good time to celebrate and I’m very happy for Kentoku and Goto. Now to promote its use. There’s a lot of dated resources that we need to get back up to speed with, so I expect that in time the Knowledgebase entry will well populated.
Posted on 11/7/2013, 4:15 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
This is a followup to my early post a month ago titled: MariaDB replaces MySQL in RHEL 7 (lots of stuff in the comments). It’s clear that MariaDB’s role is in Software Collections, which is new in RHEL.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes Red Hat will switch from Oracle MySQL to MariaDB, reports.
Sean Michael Kerner has a video (and writeup) with Denise Dumas, RHEL team leader, who talks about Software Collections, MariaDB, and how we’re all friendly (Red Hat + SkySQL + MariaDB). There will be 3 years of support for Software Collections. Indemnification applies as always, its just support cycle per collection is reduced. New MySQL ships in Software Collections too. Its available for 6.4/6.5 (probably as a GA as its beta now), and will be in RHEL7 too.
Also, if you’re using OpenShift, there is now a new cartridge: the OpenShift MariaDB Cartridge.
Posted on 12/6/2013, 4:24 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Subject says its all, this is of course, very good news coming out of the Red Hat Summit. Looking forward to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. And of course, CentOS 7 and the other builds that follow. Thank you Red Hat!
Posted on 12/6/2013, 12:40 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
So MariaDB 10.0.3 Alpha is out. Download it and remember to provide feedback.
When you run SHOW ENGINES by default, you don’t get CassandraSE or the CONNECT engine. Make sure you do a yum install MariaDB-cassandra-engine and a yum install MariaDB-connect-engine.
You will run into conflicts if you had an older MariaDB-CassandraSE engine (so yum remove MariaDB-CassandraSE).
Once you’ve got the packages installed, you can either install the plugin or just restart mysqld.
Happy testing!
Posted on 11/6/2013, 7:27 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Today I performed a brew update. I noticed that MariaDB now exists as stable (5.5.30) and devel (10.0.2). Brew formulas also exist for MySQL (5.6.10) and Percona Server (5.5.30-30.2) now. 10.0.3 is around the corner but I wanted to run 10.0.2 now. This is how I did it:
brew unlink mariadb
brew install --devel mariadb
It’s that simple!
