MySQL Encryption at Rest – Part 1 (LUKS)
MySQL Encryption at Rest – Part 1 (LUKS) BY Manjot Singh and Matthew Boehm | June 6, 2017 In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest. At Percona, we work...
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ProxySQL Admin Interface Is Not Your Typical MySQL Server!
ProxySQL Admin Interface Is Not Your Typical MySQL Server! BY Peter Zaitsev | June 7, 2017 In this blog post, I’ll look at how ProxySQL Admin behaves in some unusual and unexpected ways from a...
NuoDB: A Comparison of Distributed, ACID-Compliant Databases
NuoDB: A Comparison of Distributed, ACID-Compliant Databases FEB 21 2017 BY Seth Proctor, NuoDB Several years after publishing papers on Spanner and F1, Google last week announced the Beta availability of what they’re calling Cloud Spanner. Essentially, this is...
NuoDB on Red Hat OpenShift
NuoDB on Red Hat OpenShift MAY 1 2017 by Ben Higgins A few years ago, Red Hat introduced OpenShift which provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS). There are a number of flavors of OpenShift from Origin, an open-source community...
Welcoming New Elastic SQL Solutions
Welcoming New Elastic SQL Solutions By Barry Morris, co-founder, NuoDB In a short period between 1979 and 1981, as the database market adjusted to a new client-server reality, we saw a rapid expansion in...
Guide to Open Source Database Selection: MySQL vs. MariaDB
A side-by-side comparison guide MySQL or MariaDB? Choosing the right database for your organization can be a daunting and time-consuming endeavor. Whether you’re embarking on a greenfield project with no database in place yet,...
In the Wake of WannaCry, Is Old Technology Leaving You Asleep at the Wheel?
Posted JUNE 1, 2017 by KEN MORTENSEN It’s no secret that the recent global ransomware attack, fittingly named WannaCry, has left businesses, government agencies, and healthcare organizations reeling. Infecting more than 300,000 computers, the attack caused organizations...
How Old Industries Can Learn New Technology Tricks
Posted MAY 10, 2017 by JULIE LOCKNER Established industries such as banks and healthcare can innovate with blockchain and big data. From hackathons to crowd-sourced code development, today’s technology can go from an idea to reality...
MariaDB User Conference M|17 Recap – Video Recordings Now Available
MAY 3, 2017 By MariaDB Team Thank you to everyone who joined us at our first-ever MariaDB user conference in New York City on April 11-12. Thank you also to our sponsors for their generous...
MariaDB 10.1.23 and 5.5.56 now available
2017-05-03 Written by Daniel Bartholomew The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.23, MariaDB 5.5.56, and MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.56. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 10.1.23 Release Notes Changelog What is...