Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:45:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.percona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-percona-favicon-32x32.png 32 32 76301791 https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/#comments Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:55:14 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=45887 This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023.In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL).Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQLThe goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/feed/ 19 45887 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-54-percona-server-for-mysql-is-alpha/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:22:27 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52980 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.I consider this to be the biggest news for the week: Alpha Build of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. Experiment with it in a Docker container. It is missing column compression with dictionary support, native partitioning for […]]]> 52980 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-53-its-mariadb-week-plus-percona-live-europe-update/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-53-its-mariadb-week-plus-percona-live-europe-update/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:44:07 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52784 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation.It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX, which […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-53-its-mariadb-week-plus-percona-live-europe-update/feed/ 1 52784 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-52-london-mysql-meetup/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-52-london-mysql-meetup/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:17:02 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52636 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw representation from Oracle MySQL, MariaDB Corporation, Pythian, and Percona. Long-time organizer Ivan Zoratti has also […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-52-london-mysql-meetup/feed/ 1 52636 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-51-debates-emerging-on-the-relicensing-of-oss/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-51-debates-emerging-on-the-relicensing-of-oss/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:29:05 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52320 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.There has been a lot of talk around licenses in open source software, and it has hit the database world in the past weeks. Redis Labs relicensed some AGPL software to the Commons Clause (in their […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-51-debates-emerging-on-the-relicensing-of-oss/feed/ 1 52320 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-wed-8-29-databases-in-the-hosted-cloud/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:54:47 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52222 Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Wednesday, August 29th, 2018, as he presents Databases in the Hosted Cloud at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now Nearly everyone today uses some form of database in the hosted cloud. You can use hosted MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, and PostgreSQL in several cloud […]]]> 52222 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-50-percona-live-europe-sessions-postgresql-in-google-cloud/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:18:10 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52207 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Grading is underway for talks at Percona Live Europe 2018. I understand that by next week you will see the tutorial schedule released. As part of the program committee, I have enjoyed reviewing tutorials, and I […]]]> 52207 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-tues-8-21-mariadb-10-3-vs-mysql-8-0/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:22:46 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52119 Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018, as he presents MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).Register NowAre they syntactically similar? Where do these two languages differ? Why would I use one over the other?MariaDB 10.3 is on the path of gradually […]]]> 52119 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-49-mongodb-conference-opportunities-and-serverless-aurora-mysql/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:49:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=52036 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Beyond the MongoDB content that will be at Percona Live Europe 2018, there is also a bit of an agenda for MongoDB Europe 2018, happening on November 8 in London—a day after Percona Live in Frankfurt. […]]]> 52036 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-48-coinbase-powered-by-mongodb-and-prometheus-graduates-in-the-cncf/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:48:48 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51903 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP!I’m sure […]]]> 51903 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:10:47 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51635 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Don’t wait, submit a talk for Percona Live Europe 2018 to be held in Frankfurt 5-7 November 2018. The call for proposals is ending soon, there is a committee being created, and it is a great […]]]> 51635 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-46/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-46/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:33:38 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51497 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-46/feed/ 1 51497 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-wed-7-18-mariadb-10-3-vs-mysql-8-0/ Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:58:11 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51334 Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents as he presents MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018, at 9:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 12:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now Technical considerationsAre they syntactically similar? Where do these two databases differ? Why would I use one over the other?MariaDB 10.3 is on […]]]> 51334 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-45-oscon-and-percona-live-europe-2018-call-for-papers/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:45:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51285 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Hello again after the hiatus last week. I’m en route to Portland for OSCON, and am very excited as it is the conference’s 20th anniversary! I hope to see some of you at my talk on July […]]]> 51285 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-44-mongodb-4-0-and-facebook-myrocks/ Sat, 30 Jun 2018 05:04:04 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=51061 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.There have been two big pieces of news this week: the release of MongoDB 4.0 and the fact that Facebook has migrated the Messenger backend over to MyRocks.MongoDB 4.0 is stable, with support for multi-document ACID […]]]> 51061 https://www.percona.com/blog/webinar-tues-6-26-mariadb-server-10-3/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:15:26 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50904 Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Tuesday, June 26th, 2018, as he presents MariaDB Server 10.3 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now MariaDB Server 10.3 is out. It has some interesting features around system versioned tables, Oracle compatibility, column compression, an integrated SPIDER engine, as well as MyRocks. Learn […]]]> 50904 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-43/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:26:20 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50853 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.This is a short working week for me due to a family emergency. It caused me to skip speaking at DataOps.Barcelona and miss hanging out with the awesome of speakers and attendees. This is the first […]]]> 50853 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-42/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-42/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:18:26 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50710 https://redislabs.com/Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Much of last week, there was a lot of talk around this article: New research shows 75% of ‘open’ Redis servers infected. It turns out, it helps that one should always read beyond the headlines because […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-42/feed/ 3 50710 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-41/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:37:13 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50529 Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.Some big news out from Microsoft about their acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub hosts many projects, including from the MySQL ecosystem, but maybe more interesting is that their DBA team is awesome, give great […]]]> 50529 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-40/ https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-40/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:45:27 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=50449 https://www.percona.com/blog/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-40/feed/ 2 50449