Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems, better ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote its ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

Anyone who’s followed the fortunes of MySQL and MariaDB these past 15 years will probably remember SkySQL, another brand that once existed within that same database ecosystem and, a year ago, became a ...

Frédéric Descamps, open source evangelist at the MariaDB Foundation, said at the time that there had been a "friendly reset" ...

This week's merger of SkySQL and MariaDB will raise the credibility of the open-source database among big organisations, according to the new company's CEO — which in turn will help it develop beyond ...

If you’ve never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now’s the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise. Your company ...

Recently while reviewing MySQL client tools, I discovered a Linux MySQL server on my local network refusing all incoming connections. Because I run Slackware, I suspected that the -skip-networking ...

Download, install, and set up a basic instance of the popular open source database with this step-by-step guide “MySQL done better” is one way to describe MariaDB. It’s a fork of that popular open ...