The MySQL Ecosystem - understanding it, not running away from it!

Event FOSDEM 2018

Location Brussels, Belgium

Dates Feb 3, 2018 – Feb 4, 2018

Presentation Feb 4, 2018

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Speaker

Colin Charles

codership (galera cluster), Consultant

Tags: #MySQL #Video

Abstract

MySQL is unique in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing two branches of the popular opensource database: Percona Server and MariaDB. It also spawned a fork: Drizzle. You’re a busy DBA having to maintain a mix of this. Or you’re a CIO planning to choose one branch. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk.

MySQL is a unique adult in many ways. It supports plugins. It supports storage engines. It is also owned by Oracle, thus birthing a branch and fork of the popular opensource database: Percona Server and MariaDB Server.

You’re a busy DBA thinking about having to maintain a mix of this. Or you’re a CIO planning to choose one branch over another. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk. Also covered is a deep-dive into what feature differences exist between MySQL/Percona Server/MariaDB Server. Within 20 minutes, you’ll leave informed and knowledgable on what to pick.

Speaker Bios

Colin Charles

codership (galera cluster), Consultant

Businessperson, open source consultant, technical architect, experienced community builder based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Colin Charles is a Consultant at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000.

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