General Tech Meeting - MariaDB presentd by Gerry Narvaja
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Our meeting this month will focus on databases, those essential tools for business, websites and any kind of data management and control. The more information we collect, the greater our need for people who know how to manage that data professionally.
Because of concerns about licensing and the future direction of MySQL, it's original developers released a new fork of MySQL in 2009, after it was acquired by Oracle. This new database, called MariaDB, is designed to be a stable, cross-platform, drop in replacement for MySQL, and has become the leading centre for development in the MySQL orbit. Prominent users of MariaDB now include Google and Mozilla, and distributions such as Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSuse, OpenBSD, Oracle, Red Hat and Slackware. Other supporters include the LampStack, Drupal, MediaWiki, Moodle, Plone, and WordPress. So our topic this month will be MariaDB.
Our speaker, Gerry Narvaja, will be driving up from Seattle. Gerry is a Senior Sales Engineer with MariaDB Corporation, and has been in the software industry for nearly three decades, usually working around databases. He's been involved with MySQL as a sales engineer and DBA for more than ten years, six of which at MySQL AB. He is the co-host of OurSQL - the MySQL community podcast.
Gerry's presentation will provide a general introduction to MariaDB 10.0, and its enhancements over MySQL. He will run a demo to show how easy it is to set up MariaDB's Global Transactions IDs and multi-source replication. These two enhancements alone provide significant improvements over traditional high availability strategies using replication.
As is our usual practice, we'll have a book raffle to raise funds for VanLug, and then adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments and networking.
So come on out, win a book, meet some friends, support VanLug and learn something new about MariaDB.