This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023.

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL).

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL

The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. It is largely an unofficial response to published comments from the MariaDB Corporation.

It is worth noting that Percona Server for MySQL is a drop-in compatible branch of MySQL, where Percona contributes as much as possible upstream. MariaDB Server, on the other hand, is a fork of MySQL 5.5. They cherry-picked MySQL features and don’t …

Setting up replication in MySQL is a common DBA task. The replication could be traditional binary log replication or based on GTID replication. This blog is a work log and…

The post How to MySQL Replication setup, Master GTID & SSL Encryption first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

MySQL is one of the top used database system and with highly active community. Though without proper configuration you may not squeeze the most out of it.This will be a…

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Our team has continued to pave the way for Continuous MySQL Operations this year with our Continuent Tungsten products: Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator.

And we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all – our customers, partners, followers and colleagues – for your support in 2019, and celebrate some of our successes with you…

2019 Continuent Momentum Highlights

• Launched three new Tungsten Clustering & Tungsten Replicator releases
• Introduced the new Tungsten Replicator (AMI) on the Amazon Marketplace
• Were named a 2020 Top Trending Product by Database Trends & Applications Magazine

2019 Continuent Customer Highlights

• 100%: Customer Satisfaction during the most recent customer survey
• 97.5%: our …

We’re delighted to be able to share that Tungsten Clustering – our flagship product – is named in the DBTA 2020 List of Trend Setting Products!

Congratulations to all the products and their teams that were named in the 2020 list.

We have been at the forefront of the market need since 2004 with our solutions for platform agnostic, highly available, globally scaling, clustered MySQL databases that are driving businesses to the cloud (whether hybrid or not) today; and our software solutions are the expression of that.

Tungsten Clustering allows enterprises running business-critical MySQL database applications to cost-effectively …

Discover the new Continuent Tungsten Replicator (AMI) – the most advanced & flexible replication engine for MySQL, MariaDB & Percona Server, including Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora

We’re excited to announce the availability on the Amazon Marketplace of a new version of the Tungsten Replicator (AMI).

Tungsten Replicator (AMI) is a replication engine that provides high-performance and improved replication functionality over the native MySQL replication solution and provides the ability to apply real-time MySQL data feeds into a range of analytics and big data databases.

Tungsten Replicator (AMI) …

Some say that the best password is the one you don’t have to remember. That’s possible with MySQL, thanks to the auth_socket plugin and its MariaDB version unix_socket.

Neither of these plugins is new, and some words have been written about the auth_socket on this blog before, for example: how to change passwords in MySQL 5.7 when using plugin: auth_socket. But while reviewing what’s new with MariaDB 10.4, I saw that the unix_socket now comes installed by default and is one of the authentication methods (one of them because in MariaDB 10.4 a single user can have more than one authentication plugin, …

We are fueled and energized by the inquisitiveness and eagerness of Database Administrators as a community, reminding us of conducting the next edition of Mydbops Database Meetup. The regular attendees are now looking forward to this quarterly meetup organized by Mydbops, for the benefit of its participants, with the latest hands-on knowledge being shared by the practitioners themselves.

This time we are back in to Diamond District as the venue for this edition of 5th Mydbops Database Meetup, even though, the place of the meeting will be in a different Tower within the same campus at Gojek Tech, Diamond District, 4th Floor, Tower ‘B’, HAL Road, Bangalore – 560 008.

Mydbops Database Meetup

Bangalore, IN
175 Members

Let us meet together at Mydbops Database Conference. This …

Good news ! Once again, the MySQL, MariaDB & Friends Devroom has been accepted for FOSDEM’20‘s edition !!

This event is a real success story for the MySQL ecosystem; the content, the speakers and the attendees are growing every year.

FOSDEM 2020’s edition will take place 1st & 2nd February in Brussels and our MySQL, MariaDB & Friends devroom will run on Saturday 1st (may change). FOSDEM & MySQL/MariaDB is a love story started 20 years ago !

The committee selecting the content for our devroom is not yet created and if you want to be part of this experience, just send me an email (candidate at mysqlmariadbandfriends dot eu) before Oct 26th.

If you want to join the Committee you have to align with the following conditions:

• planning to be present at FOSDEM
• having a link …

Since three years of our entity’s progression, Mydbops IT Solutions, Bangalore, have been an active participant of Open Source India (OSI) conference, conducted by Open Source For You Magazine which is part of EFY Group, New Delhi.

This annual event is an attempt by the team at Open Source For You magazine in partnership with India’s Open Source community and industry—to bring various stake-holders under one roof. The mission of OSI is simple—to accelerate development and deployment of Open Source in India, and beyond.

This year our floor presence has been shifted to the Entry Bay itself, contrasting from our previous presence at the sides of an Auditorium. This position is alongside the IT bigwig like, Microsoft. This development, show cases strides made in the past …