MariaDB



MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. When MySQL was bought by Oracle, the original author of MySQL decided to start a new branch, which will always be Free Software and open to the contributions of the community.

The purpose of this book is to provide a user-friendly community-contributed manual for MariaDB. Because MariaDB is a fork, this manual won't explain the features of the "parent" software, which are described in the book MySQL.

Unlike the official MySQL documentation, this book is a Free project. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 (Unported) and the GNU Free Documentation License.

/Introduction/

 * 1) What is MariaDB?
 * 2) Differences between MariaDB and MySQL
 * 3) History
 * 4) Resources

/Storage Engines/

 * 1) Aria
 * 2) PBXT
 * 3) XtraDB
 * 4) FederatedX
 * 5) InnoDB

/Features/

 * 1) Pool of threads
 * 2) Table elimination
 * 3) Microseconds granularity
 * 4) Performance

Related wikibooks

 * Structured Query Language: about general SQL programming, with lots of exercises.
 * Converting MySQL to PostgreSQL: also valid for MariaDB
 * (IT) MariaDB