September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 13m
English
In this chapter, you'll learn about common hardware solutions that you can find on the market, and which ones are slower or faster for MariaDB. You'll be able to properly tune your operating system to optimize your hardware and see how to reserve resources. Finally, you'll learn how to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB and have an overview of the available engines.
What is MariaDB? If you have bought this book, you probably already know; anyway, a quick reminder and a short introduction helps us to understand certain things.
MariaDB is a fork (drop-in replacement) of MySQL. MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008. Then, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 with MySQL included.
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