1. Meet MariaDB
Ian Gilfillan
MariaDB Foundation

2. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL

3. MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Corporation

4. Up until 5.5, MariaDB followed MySQL's numbering

5. Next major release was MariaDB 10.0

6. MariaDB 5.3
• Stable in Feb 2012
• Numerous improvements to the query optimizer
• Particularly subqueries
• Improvements to replication and binary logging

7. MariaDB 5.5
• Stable in April 2012
• 5.3 improvements went into MariaDB 5.5
• On a busy server, 5 times faster than MySQL
• MariaDB 5.5 supported until April 2020

8. MariaDB 10.0
• Stable in March 2014
• Parallel Replication (up to 10 times improvement)
• Global Transaction ID
• Multi-source Replication
• Online ALTER TABLE

9. MariaDB 10.1
• First stable Oct 2015
• Galera
• Encryption
• Page compression
• Roles
• GIS improvements
• Debian 9 Stretch

10. MariaDB 10.2
• First stable May 2017
• Window functions
• Common Table Expressions
• GeoJSON / JSON
• XtraDB → InnoDB

11. Window Functions

12. MariaDB 10.3
• First alpha released in April
• Oracle compatibility

13. Learn more
• Foundation website: mariadb.org
• Code: github.com/mariadb/server
• Documentation: mariadb.com/kb
• Bugs: jira.mariadb.org
• IRC: #maria on Freenode
• Mailing list: maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net
Questions?