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21st of March 2013,  09:00 - 14:00, Novotel Amsterdam City

SkySQL and Monty Program are on the road with our joint Meetup in Amsterdam where Monty Widenius - the origninal creator of MySQL - will unveil his vision of the future of the MySQL database via MariaDB.

Also known as MariaDB CLfJA (Client Library for Java Applications)

Le 27 mars de 14h à 19h à l'Atelier du France, Paris

SkySQL et Monty Program organisent une demie journée de conférences consacrées aux bonnes pratiques et retours d'expériences autour des bases de données MySQL®et MariaDB, l'objectif étant de répondre aux préoccupations actuelles des administrateurs de bases de données.

A high-level comparative overview of the features

With the recent GA release of MySQL 5.6, there have been a lot of questions about where MariaDB stands with regards to MySQL 5.6.  SkySQL will of course support both as Patrik explained in his recent blog post, but there are many questions about the technical differences. Rasmus from Monty Program gave a detailed view on MariaDB 10.0 here but I thought it would be beneficial to share a comparison table of the two. MariaDB recently released a benchmark including various versions of both MariaDB and MySQL (as did DmitriK from Oracle), but this post will focus solely on features (not performance). This comparison table is a high level overview with no intention to cover every single feature, only the ones deemed most significant.

SkySQL to Sponsor & Speak at this Year’s Conference!

It’s not too soon to be thinking about what sessions you’ll be attending while at Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2013. SkySQL’s team of MySQL and MariaDB database experts will be headed to Santa Clara in full force as sponsors and speakers of this annual meeting for MySQL database users. As you plan out your week, be sure to check out some of SkySQL’s talks, including:

• Ivan Zoratti speaks about "Big Data & MySQL"
• Ralf Gebhardt speaks about "Creating MySQL Test-Environments using the SkySQL Cloud Data Suite"
• Massimiliano Pinto & Mark Riddoch speak about "Deploying a highly available database solution in the Amazon EC2 Cloud using MariaDB"
• Ivan Zoratti speaks about "What can we learn from NoSQL technologies?"
• Massimo Brignoli & Henrik Ingo speak about "Failover, or not failover, that is the question"
• Anders Karlsson speaks about "MySQL on AWS 101 - Using the AWS API, set up MySQL on EBS and more"

SkySQL confirms commitment to support the newly released Oracle MySQL 5.6

Tuesday, February 5th was an important day in the MySQL ecosystem due to the release by Oracle of the long-awaited MySQL 5.6 GA. Many MySQL users have been looking forward to this release in order to benefit from the improved performance and scalability. Features such as online operations/schema changes, NoSQL access from memcached to InnoDB, multi threaded-replication and Global Transaction ID significantly improve the competitiveness of MySQL.

The MySQL & Cloud Solutions Day will take place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, immediately following the Percona Live:  MySQL User Conference & Expo 2013

The news is already making the rounds (ex: rumors here, and confirmed here and here), but Fedora will apparently replace MySQL with MariaDB in an upcoming release.

We're looking forward to spreading the MySQL, MariaDB & Cloud message further in Finland this year!

Talouselämä, the largest Finnish business publication today published their list of the Top 20 Startup companies in Finland. The selection was made from approximately 100 applications from companies based in Finland.