Thu, 2016-04-14 08:27markusmakelaNew and Improved Functionality

The recently released 1.4.1 version of MariaDB MaxScale contains a bundle of great improvements to the Database Firewall Filter, dbfwfilter. This article starts by describing the dbfwfilter module and how it is used. Next we’ll find out what kinds of improvements were made to the filter in MaxScale 1.4.1 and we’ll finish by looking at a few use cases for it.

Here are the highlights of the new dbfwfilter functionality in the 1.4.1 release of MaxScale.

• Configurable filter actions on rule match
  • Allow the query, block the query or ignore the match
• Logging of matching and/or non-matching queries

With these new features, you can easily implement various types of configurations including a dry-run mode where no action is taken but all matching and non-matching queries are …

We had the first MariaDB Berlin Meetup on Tuesday 12.04.2016 at the Wikimedia Berlin offices at 7pm. More or less there were over 54 people that attended the event, a mix of MariaDB Corporation employees and community members. We competed with the entertainment at the AWS Summit Berlin which was apparently about 400m away! Food and drink were enjoyed by all, and most importantly there were many, many lightning talks (minimum 5 minutes, maximum 10 minutes – most were about 6-7 minutes long).

The bonus of all of this? Lots and lots of slides for you to see. Grab them from the Google Drive folder MariaDB Berlin meetup April 2016.

1. Monty talked …

In this post i want to share with you how to create Repository Pattern in Laravel 5 application generally we are getting data directly from model I mean we are use just MVC But if you have big application then it is better way if you use Repository Pattern I will give you few step to create Repo

In our previous post, we showed how Orchestrator can handle complex replication topologies. Today we will discuss how the Orchestrator-agent complements Orchestrator by monitoring our servers, and provides us a snapshot and recovery abilities if there are problems.

Please be aware that the following scripts and settings in this post are not production ready (missing error handling, etc.) –  this post is just a proof of concept.

What is Orchestrator-agent?

Orchestrator-agent is a sub-project of Orchestrator. It is a service that runs on the MySQL servers, and it gives us …

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In a world where new data processing languages appear every day, it can be helpful to have tutorials explaining language characteristics in detail from the ground up.  This blog post is not such a tutorial.   It also isn’t a tutorial on getting started with MySQL or Hadoop, nor is it a list of best practices for the various languages I’ll reference here – there are bound to be better ways to accomplish certain tasks, and where a choice was required, I’ve emphasized clarity and readability over performance.  Finally, this isn’t meant to be a quickstart for SQL experts to access Hadoop – there are a number of SQL interfaces to Hadoop such as Impala or Hive that make Hadoop incredibly accessible to those with existing SQL skills.

Instead, this post is a pale equivalent of the …

This blog post is an update to our last post discussing database compression methods, and how they stack up against each other. 

When Vadim and I wrote about Evaluating Database Compression Methods last month, we claimed that evaluating database compression algorithms was easy these days because there are ready-to-use benchmark suites such as lzbench.

As easy as it was to do an evaluation with this tool, it turned out it was also easy to make a mistake. Due to a bug in the benchmark we got incorrect results for the LZ4 …

This Log Buffer Edition digs deep into the realms of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and brings together a few of the top blog posts.

Oracle

We’ve all encountered a situation when you want to check a simple query or syntax for your SQL and don’t have a database around. Of course, most of us have at least a virtual machine for that, but it takes time to fire it up, and if you work from battery, it can leave you without power pretty quickly.

View Criteria is set to execute in Database mode by default. There is option to change execution mode to Both. This would execute query and fetch results from database and from memory.  Such query execution is useful, when we want to include newly created (but not …

Starting with MySQL 5.7 we introduced the Query Rewrite Plugin. That tool is really useful for changing queries. Of course the best location to modify the query is the source code of the application, but this is not always possible. Either the application is not under your control or queries are generated from a framework like Hibernate and sometimes it is hard to change the query generation.
If you are interested in details about the Query Rewrite Plugin, I recommend this blogpost from the MySQL Engineering: http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-query-rewrite-plugins/
Recently I was asked how this works in replication environments. Which query goes into the binlog?

If you are using the Rewriter plugin that comes with MySQL 5.7, the answer is easy: This plugin only supports rewriting SELECT queries. SELECT queries don't get into the binlog …

Interesting developments in the MySQL world – it can now be used as a document store and you can query the database using JavaScript instead of SQL (via the MySQL Shell). There is also a new X Plugin (see: mysql-5.7.12/rapid/) (which now makes use of protocol buffers (see: mysql-5.7.12/extra/protobuf/)). I will agree, this is more than just a maintenance release.

Do get started playing with MySQL Shell. If you’re using the yum repository, remember to ensure you have …