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Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Rob Hedgpeth. With the release of MariaDB Platform X5, we’ve added new tooling and features that offload development complexity so developers can focus on creating innovation solutions. MariaDB Platform X5 includes MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5, pluggable engines (such as InnoDB, ColumnStore, MyRocks, Spider and now Xpand), connectors, and the MaxScale database proxy. And because there’s so much that’s included with the MariaDB Platform X5 release I figured it might be best to start with the high points before drilling down into more details in the future.Added aggregate JSON functions New Temporal Tables features Enhanced SQL Kafka ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Ralf Gebhardt. Best practice for enterprise data management is to use data-at-rest encryption for storing highly sensitive data on storage media, with encryption keys safely stored in an external key management system. HashiCorp Vault has become an increasingly popular tool for this purpose, so we are excited to announce that MariaDB Platform X5 can integrate directly with HashiCorp Vault.The HashiCorp Vault Encryption Plugin (hashicorp_key_management) enables using HashiCorp Vault to manage MariaDB’s data-at-rest encryption keys. hashicorp_key_management supports both the open source and enterprise version of HashiCorp Vault. HashiCorp Vault can be used as the key management system ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Saravana Krishnamurthy. The best way to experience MariaDB in the cloud is through MariaDB SkySQL, our fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS). We’ve released several new enhancements to SkySQL that deliver additional functionality and features that you won’t find in any other cloud database.MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 GA SkySQL now supports the most recent, major version of MariaDB Enterprise Server. MariaDB Enterprise Server extends the capabilities of the widely-deployed MariaDB Community Server with enterprise-focused advanced features and optimized builds for production environments. Customers can now choose to deploy either MariaDB Enterprise Server version 10.4 or 10.5 GA. The ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. Database monitoring is an invaluable tool when you need to react to a problem. And root cause analysis helped by monitoring can avoid repeat issues. That’s great, but we’d all rather prevent problems than react to them. Monitoring doesn’t provide the depth and level of information you need to predict and prepare for the future. MariaDB SkySQL Workload Analysis does.MariaDB SkySQL Workload Analysis, currently in technical preview on SkySQL, inhales hundreds of metrics on your database, uses machine learning to build a model that characterizes your workloads, and let’s you clearly see patterns over ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Max Mether. With the release of MariaDB Platform X5, we’re taking the versatility of MariaDB to another level by providing a distributed SQL solution for our customers. This is an entirely new capability for MariaDB and provides customers with increased flexibility to meet changing workload needs. The Xpand smart engine allows customers to scale beyond the InnoDB storage engine’s sweet spot of high-performance mixed read/write workloads on a single node with the option of adding scale via replication and employing a highly-available fault-tolerant distributed solution for large-scale workloads.Since MariaDB Xpand is a storage engine, you have ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. MariaDB Platform X5 is the culmination of years of work and planning. Long before the initial release of MariaDB Platform, even before the first releases of its predecessors MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX, we envisioned an enterprise open source database solution capable of handling any workload at any scale.MariaDB Platform X3 integrated MariaDB ColumnStore to add distributed, columnar storage and processing for interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows. MariaDB Platform X4 fully integrated ColumnStore, replacing a complex change-data-capture process with standard replication to better support smart transactions (i.e., hybrid transactional/analytical processing or ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Todd Stoffel. MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced database load balancer, proxy, firewall, and query router that extends the high availability, scalability, and security of MariaDB Enterprise Server. MaxScale abstracts away the complexity of the underlying database infrastructure so DBAs, developers, and operators can focus on their core business. Part of the MariaDB Platform X5 release, MaxScale 2.5 incorporates many new features that enhance its functionality and performance.Here are a few of the top level highlights: Graphic User Interface. The most visible change is that we now have a graphic user interface for managing MaxScale as an ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Max Mether. MariaDB Enterprise Server is the key component of MariaDB Platform. The newest major release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 delivers increased performance and expanded capabilities including distributed SQL, improved analytics integration and management, and additional security features.Distributed SQL with Xpand The addition of the Xpand smart engine to MariaDB Platform makes it easy to elastically scale out with distributed SQL. Xpand tables are fully distributed and highly available. Distribute a single table or the entire database. Xpand tables can be joined with tables using other engines (e.g. ColumnStore) giving customers extreme flexibility. Xpand is ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Rob Hedgpeth. One of the most notable changes in MariaDB Community Server 10.5 is the addition of ColumnStore as a pluggable storage engine. With this addition, analytics is available to millions of users deploying the open source MariaDB community version for free. Sure, that sounds good, but how easy is it to actually use? If you want to see it in action before downloading MariaDB Community Server 10.5 for yourself, take a look at our recent webinar.In the webinar (which also includes an overview of the new features in MariaDB Community Server 10.5), I explain why ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Max Mether. With the release of MariaDB Community Server 10.5, we continue what we started with our first divergence from MySQL, adding important features while maintaining key points of compatibility.To reflect our differentiation from MySQL, MariaDB Community Server 10.5 includes more MariaDB-named executables. And reflecting the value we place on compatibility, we include symlinks for old binary names. We started renaming executables to mariadb in MariaDB Server 10.4, using symlinks from the legacy mysql names to the new mariadb executable names. Now in MariaDB Server 10.5 the symlinks reverse direction, with MariaDB executables such as mariadb, ... Read More