Here I have been looking into using the MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Log plugin for 5.7. We have many options to audit (filters, encryption, compression, Workbench, rotation & purging, viewing the log, etc.) and it’s quite clear cut on what we’re auditing and not when active.

If you’re looking to go deep into the Audit Plugin, as part of the Enterprise Edition, you’ll want to look at the following Support note:

Master Note for MySQL Enterprise Audit Log Plugin (Doc ID 2299419.1)

And if you’re looking for other Audit Plugin examples, I’d recommend Tony Darnell’s blog post:

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MariaDB 10.0.14 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.14/

This is the fifth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 15th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release. (MariaDB 10.0 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of the MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6.)

Here are the main items of note:

1. TokuDB upgraded to 7.5.0
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.20-68.0
3. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.20
4. …

Disclaimer: I’m not specially an expert of benchmarking, this post is to compare different options. All comments and advices are welcome.

I’m not telling you anything new, the show processlist command is a fantastic command line tool for instant check.
But what about monitor your databases with this command embedded in a tool?

Just have a look at this graph:

With 5K queries per seconds, how much will be hidden with a show processlist executed every seconds? Probably a lot.
So, I wanted to test which alternatives could be efficient to retrieve all the queries during a time lapse.

Test procedure and configuration

I used sysbench 0.5 (with oltp.lua) to make my tests on different configurations and …

MariaDB 10.0.13 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.13/

This is the fourth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 14th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. InnoDB upgraded to 5.6.19.
2. XtraDB upgraded to 5.6.19-67.0.
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MariaDB 10.0.12 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.12/

This is the third GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 13th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2.4.
2. Updated Connect engine.
3. Updated pcre to version 8.35.
4. Exists-to-In optimization is now enabled by default.
5. …

MariaDB 10.0.11 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.11/

This is the second GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 12th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated TokuDB engine to version 7.1.6
2. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2 (now Gamma)
3. Updated XtraDB storage engine to version 5.6.17-65.0
4. Updated InnoDB storage engine to version 5.6.17
5. Updated …

MariaDB 10.0.10 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.10/

This is the first GA ("Generally Availability", aka "recommended for production systems") release of MariaDB 10.0, and 11th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

Since this is the initial 10.0 GA release, this is primarily a bug-fix and polishing release.

Here are the main items of note:

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I’m happy to announce that a new version of the MariaDB Audit Plugin is available. Version 1.1.5 can be downloaded here. As you can see the Audit Plugin is available from SkySQL, who has developed the plugin.

However, now with the Audit Plugin being GA for a couple of months since 7th of November last year and customers using it in production, SkySQL has decided to contribute the Audit Plugin to the MariaDB project and I’m happy to tell you that starting from MariaDB versions 5.5.37 and 10.0.9 the Audit Plugin will be included by default. Notice that these versions of MariaDB aren’t yet released.

The MariaDB Audit Plugin introduces the capabilities of tracking user access to data. By having the Audit Plugin available by default in MariaDB, all users can easily set up tracking in their own systems and follow in real time who’s doing what in …

Another month has come to an end. If you’re looking to be updated on MariaDB content on a regular basis, don’t forget to be on Twitter (@mariadb), Facebook (MariaDB.dbms), or Google Plus (+mariadb).

There was a question on Quora – Is Facebook considering ditching MySQL in favor of MariaDB like Google did? The best answer really comes from Harrison Fisk, so I’ll leave you to it to read. The older link made its way on social media about Wikipedia_$ mv MySQL MariaDB. …