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MariaDB High Performance

You're reading from   MariaDB High Performance Familiarize yourself with the MariaDB system and build high-performance applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981601
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pierre Mavro Pierre Mavro
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Performance Introduction 2. Performance Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Performance Optimizations 4. MariaDB Replication 5. WAN Slave Architectures 6. Building a Dual Master Replication 7. MariaDB Multimaster Slaves 8. Galera Cluster – Multimaster Replication 9. Spider – Sharding Your Data 10. Monitoring 11. Backups Index

MariaDB history

What is MariaDB? If you have bought this book, you probably already know; anyway, a quick reminder and a short introduction helps us to understand certain things.

MariaDB is a fork (drop-in replacement) of MySQL. MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008. Then, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 with MySQL included.

For several reasons, Michael Monty Widenius (the founder of MySQL) decided to fork MySQL and create a company for it called Monty Program AB. Thus, MariaDB (Maria is the name of the second daughter of Michael Monty Widenius) was born.

In December 2012, the MariaDB foundation was created to avoid any company acquisition like what had happened in the past for MySQL.

SkySQL is a company comprising of ex-MySQL executives and investors who deliver services around MySQL/MariaDB. In April 2013, there was a merger between SkySQL and Monty Program AB. For a company that may have wanted to switch to MariaDB without support, it was problematic. However, since the merger, it has been possible.

MariaDB has new interesting features: better testing, performance improvements, and bug fixes that are unfortunately not available in MySQL. For example, some optimizations come from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

Note

Please remember that MariaDB is a fully open source project and you're welcome to contribute.

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