MariaDB

center|300px|MariaDB logotype with sea lion mascot. 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. Table of contents /Introduction/ What is MariaDB? Differences between MariaDB and MySQL History Resources /Storage Engines/ Aria PBXT XtraDB FederatedX w:InnoDB /Features/ Pool of threads Table elimination Microseconds granularity Performance Miscellaneous Related wikibooks Structured Query Language: about general SQL programming, with lots of exercises. Converting MySQL to PostgreSQL: also valid for MariaDB (IT) MariaDB Database management systems Open source software SQL M 0% __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__