Mon, 2016-04-25 06:42colin
AliSQL is the fork of MySQL (maintained by Alibaba) that powers all of the group from Tmall, Taobao, Alibaba.com, 1688.com, AliExpress, Cainiao and the payment's network Alipay.
AliSQL isn't new - they've had this fork since 2011: AliSQL 5.1 (Bugfixes for DDL, eliminate race conditions), 2012: AliSQL 5.5 (parallel replication, optimize hot SKUs), 2014: AliSQL 5.6 (Enhanced threadpool, SQL firewall). The team have found/reported/fixed over 40+ bugs, added 41 new features, and optimised 27 bottlenecks. All recent releases of MySQL have had AliSQL contributions (5.6.25 onwards, 5.7.8 onwards, and even 5.8 branch).
AliSQL benefitting MariaDB Server
While not mentioned in the talk, its clear that MariaDB Server 10.0+ has benefited from their tree as well -- our …
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