Introduction

Evaluating the performance of database systems is a very demanding task. There are a lot of hard choices to be made, e.g.:

• What operating system and operating system version is to be used
• What configuration setup is to be used
• What benchmarks are to be used and how long are the warm-up and measure times
• What test setups are to be used
• What version of the database management system is used
• What storage engine is used

While performance evaluation is mostly machine time, there is still a lot of hard work for the human monitoring the tests. In this blog post we have made following choices:

• We’re using an Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9GHz CPU containing 32-cores and Linux 3.4.12 with 132G main memory. The database is stored on a Fusion-IO ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB Firmware v7.2.5, rev 110646, using Driver 3.3.4 build 5833069. The …

MariaDB 10.1.0 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.0/

This is the first alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are a lot of new changes and functionalities added, which cover a wide variety of areas such as: Performance, InnoDB/XtraDB, WebScaleSQL, Optimizer, Security, Storage Engine functionality, & Administration Improvements.

These are 9 of the most notable changes in MariaDB 10.1.0 (but do check out the release notes and changelogs below for the full list of changes):

1. InnoDB: Allow > 16K pages on InnoDB – InnoDB now allows page size to be configured as 16K, 32K and 64K. Note that single row size must be < 16K. This feature will allow …

Today marks a milestone in terms of the MariaDB project – going forward, the MariaDB project plans to use Github and git for source code management. The migration happens from Launchpad and the bzr tool.

The 10.1 server development (under heavy development now) will happen on Github. You can check it out here: https://github.com/MariaDB/server. Feel free to watch, star or even fork the code, and send us contributions!

Previous maria-captains should now provide their Github IDs so that they can be accorded similar status. Send the IDs to the maria-developers mailing list.

The project eventually wants to move the 10.0, 5.5, 5.3, …

Last night, after my previous blog post, everyone in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona gathered for dinner at El Cangrejo Loco, which, if my High School Spanish is working, translates as The Crazy Crab. After the excellent food, the tradition of singing at MySQL/MariaDB developer meetings was preserved.

Today the MariaDB developers in attendance at the SkySQL developer meeting in Barcelona got together to work on plans for MariaDB 10.1. We also paused for a group photo:

Many tasks have been identified for possible inclusion in 10.1. Some have already been marked as such in JIRA. A summary is available for those that are interested. More will be added as the plans for 10.1 firm up, so check back.

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