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Install MariaDB Galera Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04

Dec 112017

Today I’m glad to publish a guest post about Galera a software that I’ve used in the past to manage a multi-master mysql cluster:

MariaDB Galera Cluster is a multi-master cluster for MariaDB. MariaDB Galera Cluster currently supports only the InnoDB/XtraDB storage engine. It is mostly used for database redundancy as it consists of multiple master servers that are synchronized and connected to each other. In today’s tutorial we are going to learn how to install MariaDB Galera Cluster on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 VPS, on optimized MariaDB hosting.

MariaDB is conquering the “desktop” distributions

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Mar 282013

This required more time if compared to Libreoffice versus Open Office, but it seem that the critical mass of users of another piece of open source software is moving away from Oracle, I’m talking about Mysql versus MariaDB.

Mysql is probably the most used open source database, it’s used in most of the more successful LAMP applications, such as WordPress, Drupal or Magento, after all the M of LAMP was an acronim for Mysql until today.

All started back in February 2013 when two large open source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, announced their intention to abandon the venerable MySQL database, now a property of Oracle, and adopt instead MariaDB.

In short MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under the GNU GPL, as opposed to any uncertainty of MySQL license status under its current ownership by Oracle. The contributors are required to share their copyright with Monty Program AB more information on this project on Wikipedia