A Guide to the MariaDB Columnstore for MySQL Admins
The typical MySQL DBA might be familiar working and managing an OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) database as part of their daily routine. You may be familiar with how it works and how to manage complex...
MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Management: Part Two
This blog post is a continuation of MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment - Part1. In this part, we are going to focus more on management operations with advanced use cases like service control,...
MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment: Part One
MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced, plug-in database proxy for MariaDB database servers. It sits between client applications and the database servers, routing client queries and server responses. MaxScale also monitors the servers, so it will...
Using the MyRocks Storage Engine with MariaDB Server
MariaDB Server is one of the most popular, open source database servers. It was created by the original developers of MySQL and it became popular for being fast, scalable, and robust. MariaDB has a rich...
Migrating from MySQL Enterprise to MariaDB 10.3
While it shares the same heritage with MySQL, MariaDB is a different database. Over the years as new versions of MySQL and MariaDB were released, both projects have differed into two different RDBMS platforms. MariaDB...
Exploring the Different Ways to Encrypt Your MariaDB Data
Encrypting your MariaDB database, whether it is in-transit and at-rest, is one of the most important things that an organization should consider if you value your data. Organizations that deal with financial transactions, medical records,...
How to Deploy MariaDB Server to a Docker Container
Nowadays, terms like Docker, Images or Containers are pretty common in all database environments, so it’s normal to see a MariaDB server running on Docker in both production and non-production setups. It is possible, however,...
Database Automation with Puppet: Deploying MySQL & MariaDB Galera Cluster
In the previous blog post, we showed you some basic steps to deploy and manage a standalone MySQL server as well as MySQL Replication setup using the MySQL Puppet module. In this second installation, we...
What's New in MariaDB Cluster 10.4
In one of the previous blogs, we covered new features which are coming out in MariaDB 10.4. We mentioned there that included in this version will be a new Galera Cluster release. In this blog...
How to Setup MariaDB 10.3 Replication Using Ansible and Vagrant
Manual deployments are common, but they can be slow and monotonous, if you ever tried Oracle RAC installation with Data Guard setup on more than three nodes, you know what I mean. Depending on the...
What's New in MariaDB 10.4
MariaDB 10.4 is a current development branch of MariaDB. Recently, on the 21st of May, the third Release Candidate (10.4.5) was released, bringing us closer to the official release. That’s why we thought it might...
Database Automation with Puppet: Deploying MySQL & MariaDB Replication
Puppet is an open source systems management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management. Automation tools help to minimize manual and repetitive tasks, and can save a great deal of time. Puppet works by default...