Wed, 2014-10-29 09:52anatoliydimitrov

Anatoliy Dimitrov gives his take on technical reasons to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB: MariaDB offers several advantages in terms of performance and features.

First and foremost, MariaDB offers more and better storage engines. NoSQL support, provided by Cassandra, allows you to run SQL and NoSQL in a single database system. MariaDB also supports TokuDB, which can handle big data for large organizations and corporate users.

MySQL's usual (and slow) database engines MyISAM and InnoDB are replaced in MariaDB by Aria and XtraDB respectively. Aria offers better caching, which makes a difference when it comes to disk-intensive operations. Temporary tables also use Aria, which speeds up complex queries, such as those involving GROUP BY and DISTINCT. …

One more DRBD tutorial, this time I will describe howto setup MySQL with DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device). Purpose This document describes how to to setup a failover system with MySQL and DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device). Introduction In this tutorial we will setup two Debian Linux nodes with a DRBD volume. MySQL will be [...]