UPDATED 14:43 EDT / APRIL 03 2014

MariaDB 10 database brings faster replication and combine SQL and NoSQL capabilities

mariadb-logoMariaDB, one of the most popular forks of MySQL, has announced the availability of version 10. This new release brings significant performance improvements in both speed and scalability compared to legacy MySQL code.

Since its launch in 2009, SkySQL, the MariaDB Company, has built an active and vibrant community of developers that allows them to innovate on the original draft of MySQL. Among the leading proponents of the project is that the Wikipedia Foundation has announced that many of its legacy databases would work with MariaDB. It has also been adopted in the vicinity of influential Linux distributions like Debian, Red Hat, Fedora or Suse.

The new features in this version of MariaDB 10 focus on improving performance of data replication, NoSQL access capabilities and sharding. The most important feature of the new release of the open-source database is the integration of different NoSQL technologies. MySQL users who migrate to MariaDB 10 would enjoy ten times faster replication, sharding, and other NoSQL properties.

NoSQL Capabilities

NoSQL is especially popular because organizations are easy to collect large amounts of data coming from a growing number of mobile devices and cloud services. Because mobile users are still more numerous and they are also more likely to access cloud services, companies must still process more data, and the amount is increasing rapidly. The latest versions of MariaDB Enterprise and Cluster supplied by SkySQL is aiming to give managers and database developers more flexibility to manage large amounts of data.

The MariaDB SQL Enterprise 2 and Enterprise Cluster 2 solutions base are trying to bring the two environments by adding integration with Apache Cassandra NoSQL database. The new release sets a new standard in performance. It is many times faster than previous generations of MariaDB and especially legacy database MySQL thanks to new features including parallel replication and a further advanced group commit.

The so-called “Connect” engine allows seamless access to various data sources, including unstructured files such as log files, and also ODBC databases. This is both good for Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) as well as for real-time analysis.

MariaDB Enterprise 2 customers also benefit from access to SkySQL’s world-class support team, enterprise-grade monitoring and backup tools accessed from the company’s new customer portal. MariaDB Enterprise Cluster 2 adds to these benefits by simplifying the deployment of highly available database Galera clusters using a powerful user console and management API.

SQL databases like MariaDB remain crucial to almost every enterprise because they can reliably convert real-world business transactions into grouped multi-step operations for consistent data manipulation. NoSQL solutions are simple to use and so popular with developers but they lack business critical features, like ensuring data consistency.

Last year, Google decided to go with MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL. Google’s decision to move ahead with the MariaDB open source project re-enforced MariaDB usage on reliability and feature set. It could be believed that Google interest in MariaDB will make the platform more exciting.


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