MariaDB Foundation

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha. MariaDB 5.5.20 is the first Alpha release in the 5.5 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a beta 5.5 release. MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha is a merge of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 with some limited additional bug fixes. This is the first 5.5-based release, and we […]

I was happy to see the announcement yesterday from Tokutek regarding their addition of MariaDB to their list of supported platforms for the TokuDB storage engine. One particular item in the press release caught my eye: “Our customers are choosing MariaDB more and more frequently for their most demanding database applications.” We’ve added many new […]

About Jelastic: Jelastic is the next generation of Java Platforms as a Service. Unlike previous cloud platforms, Jelastic: Can run any Java application and so does not require developers to change their code or get locked-into the platform, Can scale any application up and down by automatically adding or removing memory and CPU units depending on […]

For some time, we haven’t had any binary distribution on Windows. This was bad because a significant number of our downloads of earlier releases was from Windows people. So, I’m working to change this. The first step is to revive the noinstall zip files. This isn’t too difficult, just run the scripts. In theory, at […]

MariaDB 5.1.44b Linux and Solaris binaries, Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS packages, and source are now available for download. This is a bugfix/security release of MariaDB 5.1.44. From the MariaDB 5.1.44b Release Notes: MariaDB 5.1.44b fixes a buffer overflow that might potentially allow an authenticated user to run arbitrary code inside the server. It also has a fix for MySQL […]

Recently (on April 19, 2010), Monty gave a Google Tech Talk, titled: MariaDB: The Backward Compatible Branch of the MySQL Database Server. The talk is under 47-minutes long, and the video is embedded below. Its a good introduction to what MariaDB has been up to for the last year+, aims, goals, and the future. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1l9Puh0sk

At the recent O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, the nice folk at O’Reilly Media got to speak to Kurt von Finck, Chief Community and Communications Officer for Monty Program Ab, about how we handle releases, why we are a superset of MySQL and more. Watch the 7 minute video, and do give us some […]

This past Monday updates in both the 5.1 and 5.2 series of MariaDB were released. It’s a pretty big deal, as some issues have been solved that affect a large number of users. You should read the release notes for MariaDB 5.1.53 and for MariaDB 5.2.4 as well as the release announcement. The annoucement contains […]

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in a post that Monty Program was working on a trademark policy for MariaDB, and we hoped to have something available for community review in early 2011. Well, that draft is ready now. The draft is available in the MariaDB knowledgebase, and we are soliciting public feedback through […]

Monty Program Ab has signed up to be a sponsor at the Open Database Camp Sardinia 2011, and has donated the logo placement to the MariaDB project. As a company we definitely plan to have a few employees attend and speak about all the things we’ve been working on in MariaDB. Will you be there? […]

Monty Program Ab has signed up to be a sponsor at Percona Live, and has donated the logo placement to the MariaDB project. Percona Live happens on February 16 2011, in San Francisco. From 11:30-11:55, we will have our very own Igor Babaev to give a talk titled The State of MariaDB in where he […]

Oracle has now launched MySQL-5.6.10-GA, so it is time to come up with some new benchmark results. The test candidates in this benchmark run are MySQL-5.5.29 MySQL-5.6.10 MariaDB-5.5.28a MariaDB-10.0.1 The 5.5 versions are in because I wanted to check for any regressions. In the past we have often seen performance regressions in newer versions which […]

The MariaDB Team will have the following presentations at Percona Live London: Engine Independent Table Statistics in MariaDB: Let the optimizer know your data by Sergei Golubchik MySQL in the Hosted Cloud by Colin Charles We’ll also be at the community meetups and all around the conference during those couple of days. Don’t forget that […]

The 2015 accounting for the MariaDB Foundation has been completed and the key figures are: Total income: 272 827,95 USD Total expenses: 276 684,73 USD Net income after adjustments: 1 337,34 USD Staff costs were about 240 000 USD. Travel costs were only about 3 000 USD. The remaining 35 000 USD is administration (accounting, finances, […]

I just finished reading a couple of interesting, and somewhat related, blog posts which I think are worth sharing (apologies to anyone who has already seen them). One is from Jelastic and the other is from Michal Hrušecký. I’ve written about MariaDB and the Jelastic cloud before (see MariaDB now available as a hosted database […]

One thing which we, as developers of MariaDB, run into is that our personal database needs are not the same as many of our users. In fact, our needs are quite light compared to many. We have a MariaDB website, a company website, a knowledgebase, this blog, and that’s about it. None of them are […]

When deploying MariaDB in the cloud, controlling the infrastructure can be as important as controlling the database itself.

I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family. I know you put a lot of effort into your presentation to the Monty Program board regarding transfer of trademark ownership, and […]