Why Marko Mäkelä, Lead Developer InnoDB, Recently Joined MariaDB Corporation
I recently joined MariaDB Corporation. You might not recognize my name, but you may have used some InnoDB features that I have worked on since I joined Innobase Oy as the first full-time employee in...
View ArticleInstant ADD COLUMN for InnoDB
MariaDB Server 10.3.2 alpha was released this week. For InnoDB, the new features coming in MariaDB Server 10.3 include CREATE SEQUENCE which is a logical continuation of the Persistent AUTO_INCREMENT...
View ArticleALTER TABLE Improvements in MariaDB Server 10.3
MariaDB Server 10.3.7 (the first Generally Available release in the series) includes some ALTER TABLE improvements that are worth mentioning. Last October, I wrote about the Instant feature that was...
View ArticleInnoDB Quality Improvements in MariaDB Server
InnoDB is the default storage engine used for MariaDB and is especially great for mixed read and write workloads. Over the last few years, we’ve delivered a number of quality improvements in the InnoDB...
View ArticleALTER TABLE Improvements in MariaDB Server 10.4
MariaDB Server 10.4 includes new ALTER TABLE improvements. A year earlier, the first GA release of MariaDB Server 10.3 introduced support for ADD COLUMN with ALGORITHM=INSTANT. Now, MariaDB Server 10.4...
View ArticleFaster, Better, Stronger, InnoDB in MariaDB Server 10.5
InnoDB is the default storage engine for MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB Community Server. While originally based on the MySQL implementation of InnoDB, MariaDB has been diverging from the...
View ArticleCrash-safe DDL of InnoDB tables in MariaDB Server 10.6
Finally, in MariaDB Server 10.6, Data Definition Language (DDL) statements are crash-safe: When using a crash-safe storage engine like InnoDB, MyRocks or Aria, and the running server is killed at any...
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