OPEN SOURCE IS ABOUT BEING OPEN NOT JUST ABOUT SOURCE CODE.
MariaDB makes changes to the storage engine API without even
consulting the mailing list. In fact, some MariaDB replication
features don't work with TokuDB because a new storage engine API
call is required, and this call requires functionality that might
not exist in all engines, that is, the engine must be able to
convert a transaction id into a THD object. No API is provided by
the SE to make this translation. MariaDB must communicate changes
to the storage API to the public so that the public can ensure
that tools made to work with MariaDB continue to work with
MariaDB. It doesn't matter that TokuDB is made by a competitor.
In a foreign language article, Kaj recently said MariaDB is more
open than Oracle because it includes many storage engines. This
is a crappy argument. MariaDB is trying to say they are better
than Oracle because they profit more from including code they
didn't …
I recently had the pleasure of attending the first OpenStack Days East conference in NYC. This was the first OpenStack Days event that we’ve had on the East Coast of the US, but I hope that it’s the first of many!…
Calling all Bostonian MySQL professionals, experts, amateurs, and enthusiasts! On October 10, Baron Schwartz, VividCortex's founder and CEO, will join the Boston MySQL Meetup Group for a presentation titled "Meeting the Challenges of Monitoring in the Cloud."
As DBaaS and "serverless" systems increasingly underlie the current paradigm for app development, understanding the best ways to gain visibility into cloud-based systems is becoming ever more important. Between Baron's experience building VividCortex, a cloud-based database peformance management platform, and writing about best practices for database performance and scaling, he has a unique perspective for leading an insightful and interactive conversation about the current challenges of monitoring in the cloud -- and what those challenges might look like in the …
[Read more]In this post, We’re going share the details about Operation and Administration part of the MaxScale. To view Installation and Configuration of MaxScale checkout our previous blog.
Before going through this week’s topic, I would highlight some recent change at MaxScale has went through.
From Version 2.0, MaxScale license changed from GPLv2 to MariaDB BSL.
MariaDB BSL enforces usage limitation for free use, require licensing for the unlimited access.
" Usage Limitation: Usage of the software is free when your application uses …[Read more]
Recently Google announced, that the second generation of Cloud SQL left the beta stage and it is available. I decided to take a look, because last time when I checked it, it looked good, but I couldn’t take it seriously because of the nonexistent SLA. I have a few databases running on Amazon RDS, but […]
Last time I went to LaraconEU as in 2014 as speaker in the community track, it was my first international event ever speaking in english and I had jitters from it.
A lot a friends were made and it was nice to see all of them again this year.
What I also like about LaraconEU it is a Laravel conference that doesn’t talk always about Laravel, being a bit less insular than one would imagine.
Shawn McCool and his team made a great job this year and I was very honoured this year to be in the Track #1 (Blue Track).
The first round of applauses when I was introducing myself and saying this was my second Laracon made very much emotional and triggered something on my mind:
These people are there to soak in the knowledge you have to share, so give your best, and I confess I tried exactly that.
The venue was amazing, I don’t have a single complaint to …
[Read more]It was suggested by Monty that the posts I've made about MariaDB are for publicity. This simply isn't true. I would have much preferred a different outcome in my interactions with MariaDB. I figured that they would end up giving me a hard time, and I'd be stubborn and we'd both hate each other for as long as I could keep from leaving. A quick separation actually seems much better in such context. Regardless, I would have preferred to speak amicably to the MariaDB Corporation about switching the license back, or at least moving to the new license at the time of the notification of the community, ie as the LAST checkin in the 2.0 branch. I would suggest they re-release 2.0 as GPL and move 2.1 to the BSL to allow the market to decide if they want to move to 2.1, or even take up 2.0, if they aren't guaranteed important (especially security!) fixes in the older …
[Read more]Open Source is a whole-of-process approach to development that can produce high-quality products better tailored to users’ real world needs. A key reason for this is the early feedback cycle built into that complete process.
Simply publishing something under an Open Source license (while not applying Open Source development processes) does not yield the same quality and other benefits. So, not all Open Source is the same.
Publishing source of a product “later” (for instance when the monetary benefit has diminished for the company) is meaningless. In this scenario, there is no “Open Source benefit” to users whatsoever, it’s simply a proprietary product. There is no opportunity for the client to make custom modifications or improvements, or ask a third party to work on such matters – neither is there any third party opportunity to verify and validate either code …
[Read more]In all the previous blog posts we covered a lot of examples of how to perform actions in a MySQL server set up as a document store. In all the code examples we used the XSession to communicate to the MySQL server.
The XSession is a logical session that abstracts our connection. With it, we can be connected to one or more servers and also give us the required support to work with collections and relational tables. But there is something that the XSession does not provide, full SQL language support.
When you need to execute a query that is not supported by an XSession, use a NodeSession instead. The NodeSession object can be useful, …
[Read more]The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.27. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release. Download MariaDB 10.0.27 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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