Schedule FrOSCon

Lecture: MariaDB: All the New Features

August 25, 2012
C120/Databases
Language: en
Databases

Summary

MariaDB - a branch of MySQL with advanced features - is gaining popularity. It is in Linux distributions, more and more companies are using it instead of MySQL. But why should you consider MariaDB? What features does it have that makes it different from MySQL? Are these features worth the move? Where can you get support when you need it?

This talk will introduce the MariaDB project. It will explain most of the new features that we have added to MariaDB, and show the benefits that they provide. It will describe where MariaDB is going and what are our goals. It will provide answers to the above and other questions that you might have about MariaDB.

Sergei was a MySQL developer since 1998. From 1999 to 2009 in MySQL AB, Sun, then in Monty...