White Papers

Written by Mark Riddoch, SkySQL's Senior Software Architect, this white paper looks at those features that have been added in the version 5.3 of the MariaDB™ database and compares them to what is available with version 5.5 of the MySQL® database. This white paper addresses the value that might be gained from migrating from version 5.5 of the MySQL database (or earlier) to version 5.3 of the MariaDB database.

Database developers and administrators have better things to do than piece together builds, follow checklists full of release commands, search the internet for sample configurations, copy files around on servers, and monitor running database processes.

This white paper discusses the challenges to set up, deploy, manage and scale mission-critical database clusters. It introduces Severalnines's flagship product, ClusterControl™, a Virtual DBA assistant that frees the developer from the complexity and learning curves associated with database clusters, and provides assistance throughout the database lifecycle.