It is not clear for many MySQL users that Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and MariaDB Galera Cluster depend on the same Galera library i.e used in Galera Cluster for MySQL which is provided by Codership team:

• Galera Cluster: MySQL Server (by Oracle) + Galera library.
• Percona XtraDB Cluster: Percona Server + Galera library.
• MariaDB Galera Cluster: MariaDB Server + Galera library.

But the question is, are there any performance differences between the three of them ?

Let's discover that by doing some simple benchmark to test …

July 22, 2014 By Severalnines

We just wanted to make it official: Severalnines ClusterControl now supports MariaDB 10!

As most of you know will know by now, MariaDB 10 is the newest and most advanced version of the popular MariaDB relational database system. Whilst remaining application-compatible with the MySQL database, it adds many new capabilities to address the most challenging web and enterprise application use cases. Cluster deployments would be based on MariaDB Galera Cluster 10, which is a complete merge of MariaDB 10.0.12 and Galera Cluster. 

ClusterControl for MariaDB Clusters

ClusterControl gives you the power to deploy, manage, monitor and scale entire MariaDB Galera clusters efficiently and …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.11. This is a Beta release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.11

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June 12, 2014 By Severalnines

We’re delighted to be joining Team MariaDB at SkySQL with a talk on ‘Automation & Management of Database Clusters’ as they tour across several European regions in the coming weeks.

Whether you’re a MariaDB enthusiast or newbie, a MySQL veteran or newbie, or even a MongoDB user who also happens to run MySQL or MariaDB databases: this roadshow is a good place to find out about the latest developments on the MariaDB database as well as related tools and technologies. 

From our own perspective, we’ll be updating participants on how to best automate & manage their database clusters, and demo some of the capabilities of …

May 19, 2014 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated last week’s joint webinar on ClusterControl 1.2.6! We had great questions from participants (thank you), most of which are transcribed below with our answers to them.

If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online.

Webinar topics discussed: 

• Database Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Deploy, Monitor, Manage, Scale
• MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB Clusters
• ClusterControl Overview & Demo
• ClusterControl New Features in 1.2.6 & Demo
• Centralized Authentication using LDAP or Active Directory
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May 7, 2014 By Severalnines

Following the release of ClusterControl 1.2.6 a couple of weeks ago, we are now looking forward to demonstrating this latest version of the product on Tuesday next week, May 13th.

This release contains key new features (along with performance improvements and bug fixes), which we will be demonstrating live during the webinar. 

Highlights include:

• Centralized Authentication using LDAP or Active Directory
• Role-Based Access Control
• OpenStack: Galera Deployment Automation
• Hybrid setups with Galera and Asynchronous MySQL Replication
• Manage single instance …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.37. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.37

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.10. This is a Beta release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.10

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A MariaDB Howto authored by: Erkan Yanar.

This is a Howto about installing MariaDB Galera Cluster on Debian/Ubuntu. Because a lot of people were having problems installing MariaDB Galera Cluster, elenst from #maria on freenode forced me to write this Howto

Installing MariaDB Galera Cluster is in fact quite easy and actually kind of boring in the end. This Howto is written for (and tested on) on Debian 7.1 (Wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise).

What we need

In our setup we assume 3 nodes (node01, node02, node03) with one interface each. We assume following IP addresses: 172.16.8.5, 172.16.8.6, and 172.16.8.4. We need three packages installed on all nodes:

• rsync
• galera
• mariadb-galera-server

As Galera does not ship with the distribution repositories, go for the …

The MariaDB developers have made several releases in the past week. Rather than post about all of them separately, we decided to combine them into one post. Details for each release are available on their individual Release Notes and Changelog pages.

MariaDB 5.5.36

First up is MariaDB 5.5.36. This is a Stable (GA) release. Apart from general maintenance, bug fixes, and updates, TokuDB is now included in RPM packages for CentOS 6 on x86-64.

Download MariaDB 5.5.36

Release Notes Changelog …