For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems, better ...

You may have heard about the upstart MySQL database MariaDB, a branch of MySQL created in the wake of Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. You’ll find many great reasons to consider MariaDB, not ...

Fedora's change to MariaDB looks to be more certain than openSUSE's (SUSE's community Linux) potential move. In Fedora's case, the shift is being suggested by Jaroslav Reznik, Red Hat's Fedora project ...

How to back up and restore MySQL/MariaDB data for a website Your email has been sent If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up ...

Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for ...

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. MariaDB, the commercial company behind the popular open source database of the same name, has confirmed plans to become ...

NEW YORK—On the first day of its Connect developer conference, Microsoft announced that it is joining the MariaDB Foundation, the group that oversees the development of the MariaDB database. Connect ...