MariaDB officially has released it’s MariaDB 5.5.23 GA MySQL server about 2 weeks ago. Still waiting on an RPM binary version for download while they work out the buildbot/rpm building issues. But you can download the source tarball and Debian repository versions. MariaDB 5.5.23 Release Notes MariaDB 5.5.23 Change Log...
MariaDB 5.3.5 stable MySQL server has been announced. Compared to previous releases in the MariaDB 5.3 series, MariaDB 5.3.5 is primarily a bug-fix release with a focus on stability, performance, and usability. It is first stable or GA release of the 5.3 series and the fifth overall release in the series. Apart from fixing...
Percona folks released some surprising Sysbench MySQL InnoDB Engine benchmarks comparing MariaDB 5.3.4 RC (which is based on Percona 5.1 XtraDB InnoDB engine) with MySQL 5.5.20 (InnoDB plugin). The results showed MySQL 5.5.20 was out performing MariaDB 5.3.4 RC for simple Sysbench OLTP InnoDB benchmark tests. MariaDB folks then did...
Mydumper is a multi-threaded MySQL backup and restore tool written in C by MySQL engineers who worked for MySQL and later moved to Facebook, SkySQL etc. Mydumper claims to be up to 10x times faster than mysqldump for backups. I’ve even suggested to WHM/Cpanel folks to incorporate Mydumper for faster...
MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta MySQL and Percona Xtrabackup 1.6.2 releases have been announced one day apart. MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta can be downloaded here.
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