The document outlines the mission and achievements of the MariaDB Foundation, which focuses on ensuring the continuity, open collaboration, and widespread adoption of MariaDB as an open-source database solution. It highlights the foundation's development work, staff contributions, and successes in increasing community engagement and software capabilities. Additionally, it discusses MariaDB's adoption in various Linux distributions and development environments, emphasizing its importance in the open-source ecosystem.

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MariaDB adoption in Linux distributions
and development environments
Otto Kekäläinen
@ottokekalainen

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What is the MariaDB Foundation?

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The MariaDB Foundation
Ensuring continuity and open collaboration
in the MariaDB ecosystem
Funded by Alibaba, Booking.com,
MariaDB.com, Visma, DBS and many others.

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The MariaDB Foundation and
Corporation are separate entities
● Similar to WordPress / Automattic, BigBlueButton /
Blindside, OwnCloud Foundation / Corporation.
● MariaDB Corporation is only one of the sponsors,
contributes 1/7th of the yearly budget.
● The Foundation staff do not work for the MariaDB
Corporation.

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The MariaDB Foundation mission
Ensuring continuity
Make sure that MariaDB
continues to thrive and stay
maintained as long as there
are users who need it.
Open collaboration
Be a place where
everybody can contribute
and collaborate using the
best open source
methodologies.
Drive adoption
Make sure MariaDB is universally available and included on all major
platforms, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.

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Foundation staff
● 7 people
● Make MariaDB available to as many users as possible
(porting, packaging)
● Single contact point for collaboration and contributions
– Make sure all pull requests and patches are responded to
promptly and properly reviewed
– Respond at security@mariadb.org, collaborate with
security teams and publish CVEs

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Foundation development work
Focusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible
● Work with community contributors to steward patches through the
integration process
● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and QA, packaging,
tracking sister projects, security etc.
● Dedicated employee for documentation
● Grow new developers
● Maintain mariadb.org
● Increase adoption
● Connect users with specific needs to service providers

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Achievements in 2015
● Release of 10.1 for General Availability, includes built-in
Galera cluster support and new encryption features
(contributed by Google), better performance and improved
security features
● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60 attendees
● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc.
● Increased community and adoption
● Read report at https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/

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Achievements in 2016
● 10.2 in development during 2016
– window functions, common table expressions...
– MyRocks, Flashback
● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70 attendees
● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X
● Increased community and adoption...
– The topic of this talk!
● Read report at https://mariadb.org/2016-mariadb-foundation/

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MariaDB adoption?
Everybody knows MySQL.
It will take time for MariaDB to
become as widely known.

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MySQL history
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Development started in 1994, released 1995
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MySQL AB founded by David Axmark, Allan
Larsson and Michael "Monty" Widenius 1995
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Named after Monty's daughter My
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General Public License v2 (GPL) since 2000
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MySQL is the M in LAMP

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LAMP
MySQL mentioned in the Social Network movie

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MySQL hugely popular since year ~2000
Oudated
slide from
Oracle's
presentation

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MariaDB history
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Anticipating the ill fate of MySQL it was forked
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Goal to keep the open source project going
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Named after Monty's youngest daughter
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MariaDB 5.1 released in October 2009
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And indeed, Oracle did close down many
aspects of the open source project MySQL

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Open source principles at MariaDB
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Publish code in real time, not just at release time.
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Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC.
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Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities.
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Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to bug reports
that have patches attached.
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Keep documentation up-to-date, develop documentation
alongside code and also allow contributions in documentation.
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Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups.
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True open source, not just code dumps

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The history of forks
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Linus Nyman, 2015:
Any instance in which
the code of a program
is copied, modified,
and reused to start or
develop another
program.

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Open source
governance
=
Behave, or get forked!

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Many were unsatisfied and forked MySQL..
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Drizzle (MySQL 6.0 branch, now abandoned)
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WebScaleSQL by Facebook, Google etc
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Percona Server, XtraDB and Cluster
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MySQL Galera Cluster
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AliSQL by Alibaba
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TMySQL by Tencent

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MariaDB success
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Steady cadence in releases:
– 2012: 5.5
– 2014: 10.0
– 2015: 10.1
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Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc
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10.2 to be released soon

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MariaDB success
Steadily increasing LOC
(10.1 branch / Ohloh.net)
DB-Engines.com
ranking of MariaDB
0
10
20
30
40

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DB-Engines.com
score
timeline
MariaDB

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MariaDB success
Google Trends
for “mariadb”

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MariaDB adoption: Linux distributions
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Red Hat
– MariaDB 5.5 has been the default "MySQL"
database since RHEL 7
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SUSE
– MariaDB 10.0 is the default relational
database option on SLES 12 SP2

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MariaDB adoption: Linux distributions
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Debian
– MariaDB 10.0 available in Debian 8
– MariaDB 10.1 the default in Debian 9
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Ubuntu
– MariaDB 5.5 available since Ubuntu 12.04
– Maybe default in 2018?
mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/distributions-which-include-mariadb/

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When will Ubuntu also switch
to MariaDB by default?

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A good sign for MariaDB in Ubuntu?

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MariaDB adoption: software
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Wikipedia.org, WikiMedia
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OwnCloud (NextCloud)
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Drupal
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WordPress

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WordPress
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WordPress.org
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WordPress.com
– MariaDB 10.1
From wordpress.org/about/stats/

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LAMP

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MariaDB adoption: dev environments
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LAMP distributions
– XAMPP
– WAMP
– Zend Server
– ServerPress
– VVV

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Nginx growing
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LAMP → LEMP
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Apache → Nginx

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Hosting marketing
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Hosting companies
that want to show
they are leading
edge boast with
MariaDB

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Benefits of widely used
open source software like MariaDB
● Quality: The bigger the community is, the faster
the software evolves.
● No lock-in: Software stays open source,
ecosystem has multiple vendors.
● No dead-end: Big user base guarantees
availability of software and people.
Your company can join the
Foundation and help ensure this

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”Given enough eyeballs all
bugs are shallow” – Linus's law

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MariaDB community grows

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MariaDB community grows

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There are plenty of
opportunities to contribute
Scratch your own itch!

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Towards the best solution in the world
Using the open source software development model

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Thanks!
mariadb.org
@ottokekalainen
otto@mariadb.org