The MySQL MariaDB Story
summary
Covers the history and growth of MySQL up to Sun’s acquisition and Oracle’s later purchase, explains why MariaDB was created to preserve a free MySQL-compatible server, and describes concrete engineering challenges of forking MySQL — including merging with MySQL 5.5, using build systems like BuildBot to produce binaries, and community collaboration around MariaDB/MySQL.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 6:53The challenges of growing
- 15:29MariaDB Foundation Goals
- 19:37MariaDB server releases
- 20:23The MariaDB releases
- 21:11Feedback plugin
- 22:57MyISAM Segmented key cache
- 26:05What's new in MariaDB 5.3
- 28:27Benchmark of new group commit Comparison with MySQL 5.6
- 29:34MariaDB 5.3 and NoSQL
- 31:30Dynamic columns in MariaDB 5.3
- 32:27New thread pool for 5.5
- 34:08Optimizations comparison
