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MariaDB adoption in Linux distributions and development environments

Otto Kekäläinen@ottokekalainen

© 2017 MariaDB Foundation2

What is the MariaDB Foundation?


The MariaDB FoundationEnsuring continuity and open collaboration

in the MariaDB ecosystem

Funded by Alibaba, Booking.com, MariaDB.com, Visma, DBS and many others.


The MariaDB Foundation and Corporation are separate entities

● Similar to WordPress / Automattic, BigBlueButton / Blindside, OwnCloud Foundation / Corporation.

● MariaDB Corporation is only one of the sponsors, contributes 1/7th of the yearly budget.

● The Foundation staff do not work for the MariaDB Corporation.


The MariaDB Foundation mission

Ensuring continuity

Make sure that MariaDB continues to thrive and stay maintained as long as there are users who need it.

Open collaboration

Be a place where everybody can contribute and collaborate using the best open source methodologies.

Drive adoptionMake sure MariaDB is universally available and included on all major platforms, serving an ever growing community of users and developers.


Foundation staff● 7 people

● Make MariaDB available to as many users as possible (porting, packaging)

● Single contact point for collaboration and contributions

– Make sure all pull requests and patches are responded to promptly and properly reviewed

– Respond at [email protected], collaborate with security teams and publish CVEs


Foundation development workFocusing on issues that benefit as many users as possible

● Work with community contributors to steward patches through the integration process

● Develop new features, tests, continuous integration and QA, packaging, tracking sister projects, security etc.

● Dedicated employee for documentation

● Grow new developers

● Maintain mariadb.org

● Increase adoption

● Connect users with specific needs to service providers


Achievements in 2015

● Release of 10.1 for General Availability, includes built-in Galera cluster support and new encryption features (contributed by Google), better performance and improved security features

● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 60 attendees

● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc.

● Increased community and adoption

● Read report at https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/

https://mariadb.org/the-year-2015-in-mariadb/


Achievements in 2016

● 10.2 in development during 2016

– window functions, common table expressions...

– MyRocks, Flashback● Developer Meetup in Amsterdam with over 70 attendees

● Ported to MIPS, HPPA; refreshed for MacOS X

● Increased community and adoption...

– The topic of this talk!

● Read report at https://mariadb.org/2016-mariadb-foundation/

https://mariadb.org/2016-mariadb-foundation/


MariaDB adoption?

Everybody knows MySQL.It will take time for MariaDB to

become as widely known.


MySQL history

● Development started in 1994, released 1995● MySQL AB founded by David Axmark, Allan

Larsson and Michael "Monty" Widenius 1995● Named after Monty's daughter My● General Public License v2 (GPL) since 2000● MySQL is the M in LAMP


LAMP

MySQL mentioned in the Social Network movie


MySQL hugely popular since year ~2000

Oudated slide from Oracle's presentation


MariaDB history

● Anticipating the ill fate of MySQL it was forked● Goal to keep the open source project going● Named after Monty's youngest daughter● MariaDB 5.1 released in October 2009● And indeed, Oracle did close down many

aspects of the open source project MySQL


Open source principles at MariaDB● Publish code in real time, not just at release time.

● Discuss and plan on public mailing list and IRC.

● Public bug tracker, transparent progress and priorities.

● Respond quickly to pull requests on Github and to bug reports that have patches attached.

● Keep documentation up-to-date, develop documentation alongside code and also allow contributions in documentation.

● Regular, free-to-attend developer meetups.

● True open source, not just code dumps


The history of forks

● Linus Nyman, 2015: Any instance in which the code of a program is copied, modified, and reused to start or develop another program.


Open source governance

=Behave, or get forked!


Many were unsatisfied and forked MySQL..

● Drizzle (MySQL 6.0 branch, now abandoned)● WebScaleSQL by Facebook, Google etc● Percona Server, XtraDB and Cluster● MySQL Galera Cluster● AliSQL by Alibaba● TMySQL by Tencent


MariaDB success

● Steady cadence in releases: – 2012: 5.5– 2014: 10.0– 2015: 10.1

● Ported to ARM, AIX, System Z, Power 8 etc● 10.2 to be released soon


MariaDB success

Steadily increasing LOC(10.1 branch / Ohloh.net)

DB-Engines.com ranking of MariaDB

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MariaDB success

Google Trends for “mariadb”


MariaDB adoption: Linux distributions

● Red Hat– MariaDB 5.5 has been the default "MySQL"

database since RHEL 7● SUSE

– MariaDB 10.0 is the default relational database option on SLES 12 SP2


MariaDB adoption: Linux distributions

● Debian– MariaDB 10.0 available in Debian 8– MariaDB 10.1 the default in Debian 9

● Ubuntu– MariaDB 5.5 available since Ubuntu 12.04– Maybe default in 2018?

mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/distributions-which-include-mariadb/

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/distributions-which-include-mariadb/






When will Ubuntu also switch to MariaDB by default?


A good sign for MariaDB in Ubuntu?



MariaDB adoption: software

● Wikipedia.org, WikiMedia● OwnCloud (NextCloud)● Drupal● WordPress


WordPress

● WordPress.org● WordPress.com

– MariaDB 10.1

From wordpress.org/about/stats/


LAMP


MariaDB adoption: dev environments

● LAMP distributions– XAMPP– WAMP– Zend Server– ServerPress– VVV


Nginx growing

● LAMP → LEMP● Apache → Nginx


Hosting marketing

● Hosting companies that want to show they are leading edge boast with MariaDB


Benefits of widely used open source software like MariaDB

● Quality: The bigger the community is, the faster the software evolves.

● No lock-in: Software stays open source, ecosystem has multiple vendors.

● No dead-end: Big user base guarantees availability of software and people.

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”Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow” – Linus's law


MariaDB community grows


MariaDB community grows


There are plenty of opportunities to contribute

Scratch your own itch!


Towards the best solution in the worldUsing the open source software development model


Thanks!

mariadb.org

@[email protected]

http://mariadb.org/