MariaDB 10: The Complete Tutorial

MariaDB 10:The
Complete Tutorial
Colin Charles, Ivan Zoratti

colin@mariadb.org, ivan@skysql.com

http://mariadb.org/ | http://mariadb.com/

Percona Live Santa Clara, California, USA

1 April 2014
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License
• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
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Colin Charles
• Work on MariaDB at SkySQL Ab

• Merged with Monty Program Ab, makers of
MariaDB

• Formerly MySQL AB (exit: Sun Microsystems)

• Past lives include Fedora Project (FESCO),
OpenOfﬁce.org

• Been a MySQL user since 2000
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MariaDB is very social
• Let’s use social media for the last time
today (till the break!) - come say hi now!

• facebook: fb.com/MariaDB.dbms

• twitter: @MariaDB

• g+: plus.google.com/+mariadb/
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Agenda
• Morning: MariaDB 10 introduction

• Afternoon: SPIDER, CONNECT, MariaDB
Manager, MaxScale
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Who are you?
• Database Administrator (DBA)

• Developer

• Database Architect (DA)
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Database Experience
• MySQL

• 4.1 or earlier?

• 5.0

• 5.1

• 5.5

• 5.6

• MariaDB

• 5.1

• 5.2

• 5.3

• 5.5

• 10.0
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Understanding releases
• Alpha

• Beta

• Release Candidate

• Stable (GA)

• Labs

• Developer Milestone Releases (DMR)
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What is MariaDB?
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• Community developed

• maria-captains: 42% Team
MariaDB, 58% community
including Sphinxsearch,
Twitter, SkySQL,Taobao,
Facebook, Percona,
Codership & more

• Feature enhanced

• MariaDB doesn’t depend on
MySQL for development -
many features are
developed independently of
MySQL

• Backwards compatible with
MySQL

• feature complete

• replication supported for
easy migration

Aims of MariaDB
• Compatible, drop-in replacement to MySQL

• your application shouldn’t care that its
running MariaDB, easy upgrade (uninstall
mysql, install mariadb, continue ops!)

• Stable (bug-free) releases with no
regressions

• GPLv2
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4 years, many server
releases
• MariaDB 5.1, GA February 2010

• MariaDB 5.2, GA November 2010

• MariaDB 5.3, GA February 2012

• MariaDB 5.5, GA April 2012

• MariaDB Galera Cluster, GA March 2013

• MariaDB 10.0.10 (March 2014)
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MariaDB 5.6?
• There will never be a MariaDB 5.6 - the
numbers have changed

• Many companies will still continue to
support both MySQL and MariaDB releases
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Importance of understanding
MariaDB (and MySQL)
• Generics are inefﬁcient

• Since you have chosen MariaDB:

• maximise its strengths

• minimise its weaknesses
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Sample databases to
play with
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html

• sakila sample database, world
database (used in MySQL training),
menagerie database (used in book:
Beginning MySQL), employees
database (large dataset, comes with data -
best to play with)
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Picking hardware
• Just use 64-bit hardware

• VM’s are improving to use 64-bit OSes &
software

• Physical > virtual

• Disk: battery backed storage, plan for RAID
usage
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Testing MySQL
• Use MySQL Sandbox

• http://mysqlsandbox.net/

• Express one-click MySQL installs

• make_sandbox foo.tar.gz

• Does not require root privileges
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Installation
• Binaries (tarballs) are available at http://mariadb.org/ (source too)

• Built, tested by MariaDB

• Graphical installer & conﬁguration for Microsoft Windows, with
HeidiSQL GUI

• Up-to-date predictable release schedule

• RPM, DEB packages are provided, includingYUM & APT
repositories

• Use the repository conﬁguration tool

• Inside Linux/*BSD distributions

• Easy to install, basic defaults, may be older than upstream
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Upgrades
• Review changelogs carefully, even for minor
versions

• Make backups (using xtrabackup)

• Don’t forget to run mysql_upgrade

• by default with a distribution package

• Replication can reduce downtime by upgrading
the slave, promoting it, then upgrading the master
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Upgrading from MySQL
5.0
• MariaDB 5.1 ﬁxes upgrades better than MySQL 5.1
handles this

• InnoDB + Archive tables upgraded properly

• mysql_upgrade, mysqlcheck have more options to see
what’s going on

• mysqlcheck wrong warnings removed

• MySQL 5.1 -> MariaDB 5.1 is “drop-in”

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/upgrading-to-mariadb-from-
mysql/
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Packages (RPM
example)
• MariaDB-common

• character sets

• MariaDB-shared

• latest libmysqlclient, some plugins,
/etc/my.cnf.d/

• MariaDB-compat

• compatible client libraries that
replace mysql-libs

• MariaDB-server

• The actual server!

• MariaDB-client

• mysql client utilities

• MariaDB-test

• test suite

• MariaDB-devel

• development headers enabling
you to build your own package

• MariaDB-CassandraSE

• plugin for CassandraSE
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What is libmysqlclient?
• Client libraries

• Many applications are compiled against
libmysqlclient

• It is an Application Binary Interface (ABI)

• When you write in Java & use Connector/J,
Connector/J is compiled against libmysqlclient

• Similarly with PHP & Connector/PHP
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MySQL utilities
• Why does MariaDB use all the same client utilities?

• Because the aim is to be a compatible drop-in
replacement

• There are very few non-MySQL utilities shipped:
aria_chk, aria_dump_log, aria_ftdump,
aria_pack, aria_read_log
• xtstat (PBXT) is deprecated in MariaDB 5.5
onwards

• mytop as it adds features not-present upstream
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Finding help
• How do you know what CLI options to use?

• Use the man(ual) pages!

•man mysql
• man <command_name> usually works for
any CLI command

• HELP SELECT in mysql works too (help
tables) - HELP <operator>
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Error messages
• perror is a great tool

• MariaDB-speciﬁc errors are 1900 and
above

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-error-
codes/#mariadb-speciﬁc-error-codes
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mysql_secure_insta
llation
• Now that you’ve tested MySQL works ﬁne (by
default, no root password), it’s time to ensure you
secure the installation

• Set root password

• Remove anonymous users

• Disallow remote root login

• Remove test database

• Reload privileges
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mysqladmin
• Manage user accounts, passwords,
permissions

• Display mysqld settings & status counters

• Shutdown, create, drop databases

shell> mysqladmin processlist
shell> mysqladmin extended-status
shell> mysqladmin -uroot -p create wordpress
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SHOW PROCESSLIST
SHOW STATUS

mysqldump
• Dump schema and/or data to .sql ﬁle, tab

• Useful for backups, transferring data

• Locks for consistency, so troublesome

shell> mysqldump --all-databases > backup.sql
shell> mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction >
backup.sql
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Other tools
• There are many other command line
tools...

• Front-ends

• HeidiSQL

• Webyog’s SQLyog

• Sequel Pro (OSX)
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Making client
connections
• TCP/IP is available on all platforms

• disable using --skip-networking
• Socket ﬁles available on Unix

• fastest communication path

• MySQL connections are generally cheap

• If you have many short running queries (typical web
app), you beneﬁt from MariaDB threadpool

• Set connection limit max_connections=n in my.cnf
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Connection Pool
• mysqld’s main thread listens for connections

• Each connection has a thread assigned to it

• Threads can be:

• created newly

• reused from thread cache

• User authentication processed based on hostname,
username & password

• Client speciﬁc buffers for session variables are allocated
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Query Cache
• Stores SELECT queries and their result sets

• Subquery cache exists only in MariaDB

• Frequently changed table data will cause
queries to naturally be missed

• Regularly replaced these days with
memcached, et al.
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SQL Parser
• Lexical scanner & grammar rules

• Parse SQL into tokens

• Apply grammar rules to check statement
validity

• Construct a parse tree for Optimizer to
use
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Optimizer
• Reads the parse tree and calculates the best query
execution plan (QEP) to handle query

• ﬁnd indexes

• determine JOIN order

• eliminate unnecessary tables

• etc.

• The optimizer is smart, don’t try to force query
plans
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Pluggable Storage
Engines
• MariaDB can use many storage engines
with different features

• Installed/removed on ﬂy with INSTALL/
UNINSTALL PLUGIN
• Mixing & matching on same server, even on
same query
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Value proposition
• No other database offers this capability

• Unmatched ﬂexibility + customisation potential

• MEMORY engine for performance/routine lookup
data

• Right storage engine can improve performance in
many applications

• ARCHIVE compresses data, up to 80%

• Partners & community beneﬁt from this
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What makes engines
different?
• Storage: how the data is stored on disk

• Or in NDB (memory+disk), CassandraSE (access a Cassandra Cluster), SphinxSE
(access the Sphinx daemon)

• Indexes: improves search operations

• Memory usage: improves data access for speed

• Transactions: protects the integrity of your data (Atomic-Consistent-Isolated-
Durable - ACID)

• Locking level: MyISAM (table locks), InnoDB (row locks), old BDB (page locks)

• Data types: Data types may be converted, MEMORY doesn’t support TEXT, etc.

• Caching: InnoDB caches data & indexes, MyISAM caches indexes only (relying on OS
disk cache for data)

• Full-text search capability: MyISAM has this, InnoDB 5.6 got this

• GIS: MyISAM & Aria work (R-tree indexes exist), InnoDB 5.7 latest labs release has it
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INFORMATION_SCHE
MA
• Holds metadata (data about the data) on all
other databases & tables, exposed as
regular tables

• Generated on the ﬂy

• Has extensions in MariaDB as we expose
more data than native MySQL
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PERFORMANCE_SCH
EMA
• Allows for monitoring execution at a low
level

• This is a storage engine, monitoring server
events (anything that takes time & can be
instrumented)

• Tables are views or temporary tables that
use no on-disk storage
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Transactional vs. non-
transactional
• Transaction-safe tables
(InnoDB) have advantages
over non-transaction safe
tables (MyISAM):

• server crash? Automatic
recovery, or a backup
+transaction log

• ROLLBACK can be
executed to ignore
changes

• Update fails? Changes
reverted

• Concurrency - tables w/
many update +
concurrent reads

• Disadvantages in today’s
environments (transaction
overhead = slower), more
disk space requirements,
more memory to perform
updates don’t seem like they
apply any longer
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Indexes
• Tree Indexes

• B-Trees

• B+Trees (InnoDB)

• T-Trees (NDB)

• Red-black binary trees
(MEMORY)

• R-Trees (MyISAM for spatial
indexes)

• Hash Indexes (MEMORY, NDB,
InnoDB)

• If table ﬁts entirely in
memory, fastest way to
perform queries is a hash
index

• InnoDB has an internal
adaptive hash index. InnoDB
monitors index searches,
and if it notices that it will
beneﬁt from a hash index,
InnoDB automatically builds
one. (5.1.24 and greater)
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MyISAM
• Pros?

• excellent INSERT
performance

• small footprint

• supports full-text
search (FTS)

• Cons?

• no transactions

• no foreign key
support

• Typical uses

• logging

• auditing

• data warehousing
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MyISAM II
• In my.cnf, remember to
set the key_buffer_size.
This is memory*0.40, as
MyISAM uses the OS
cache for tables

• myisam_use_mmap
enables MyISAM to use
memory mapping
(7-40% speed
improvement)

• key_cache_segments =
1 enables segmented key
caches in MariaDB -
~250% improvements, as
it mitigates thread
contention for key cache
lock
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MyISAM segmented key
caches
• Mitigates thread contention for key cache lock, with
notable performance improvements

• Key caches divided into different segments, allowing
for better key cache concurrency

• 1-64 segments
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InnoDB
• Maintains its own buffer pool (does
aggressive memory caching)

• Uses tablespaces (several ﬁles on disk, raw
disk support)

• Typically used for OLTP operations
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ARCHIVE
• Store large amounts of data without
indexes, in small disk footprint

• SELECT and INSERT operations only

• Good for data audit use

• Uses AZIO (zlib) compression
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FederatedX
• Create logical pointers to tables that exist on other MySQL servers;
these can then be linked together to form one logical database

• A federated table pointing to an InnoDB table on another server, will
have transaction support (in 5.1)

• Capabilities limited to underlying engine on remote server

• CREATE TABLE t1 (...) ENGINE=FEDERATED
CONNECTION='mysql://username:pwd@myhost:3306/db_name/
tbl_name

• Can also be used for synchronous replication

• Federated table on master server pointing to slave; triggers on
master table to write all changes to remote table once applied to
the master
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Memory
• Previously known as HEAP tables

• In-memory engine

• Hash index used by default (changes in 5.2,
enable much better INSERT performance),
B-Tree available too

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/performance-of-
memory-tables/
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Aria
• Based off the 5.1 code

• 1.0 – crash-safe MyISAM, with cacheable row format

• 1.5 – concurrent INSERT/SELECT

• Soon to be merged into 6.0, then...

• 2.0: transactional + ACID compliance

• 3.0: high concurrency, online backup

• Goal:ACID compliant, MVCC transactional storage engine, based on MyISAM

• Target? Data warehousing

• Uses big log ﬁles (1GB by default)

• 8K pages used by default (MyISAM uses 1K pages)

• Has group commit (MariaDB 5.2) to speed up inserts
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PBXT (deprecated)
• MVCC, transactional,ACID compliant, foreign key
support

• row-level locking for updates, so maximum concurrency

• immediate notiﬁcation if client processes are
deadlocked

• write-once, as it uses a log-based architecture (write
data to DB without ﬁrst writing to transaction log)

• support for BLOB streaming with Blob Streaming
engine
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Storage Engine API
• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/
articles/creating-new-storage-engine.html

• SHOW PLUGINS;

• https://kb.askmonty.org/v/extending-create-
table

• storage/example/ha_example.cc and
storage/example/ha_example.h
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Writing your own
• Find the plugin path - show variables like “%plugins%”;

+---------------+-----------------------------------+!
| Variable_name | Value |!
+---------------+-----------------------------------+!
| plugin_dir | /opt/maria/5.2.6/lib/mysql/plugin | !
+---------------+-----------------------------------+!
• note that this is also where you store UDFs

• Copy the relevant engine (eg. myengine.so)

• INSTALL PLUGIN myengine SONAME 'myengine.so';

• Server registers plugin to mysql.plugin table, and now ENGINE=myengine will
work
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Things to think about
• Backup is not engine-independent

• MyISAM, InnoDB,TokuDB

• LVM/ZFS snapshots mitigate this

• Different engines have different monitoring
options

• Mix and match; use summary tables
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Survey of popular OSS
tools - what they use
• Wordpress (blog): uses default engine, MyISAM is ﬁne

• MediaWiki (wiki): prefers InnoDB, except for
“searchindex” table, which is MyISAM

• http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/
phase3/maintenance/tables.sql?view=markup

• vBulletin (forum): MyISAM

• SugarCRM (CRM): MyISAM (with conversion script to
InnoDB provided)

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite: InnoDB
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Now, let’s focus on
MariaDB features
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We start with...
• What came in 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5 (jump
around appropriately)

• What comes in 10.0 series

• I won’t talk about deprecated features like
PBXT in-depth, or even the old MariaDB
5.1 pool of threads (5.5 threadpool is
better)
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XtraDB
• A more performant
InnoDB designed to
scale on modern
hardware

• Less checkpointing
(smoother), less ﬂushing
to disk
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Switching between
XtraDB & InnoDB
mysqld --ignore-builtin-innodb --plugin-
load=innodb=ha_innodb.so --plugin_dir=/usr/local/
mysql/lib/mysql/plugin
!
Or in my.cnf

[mysqld]
ignore-builtin-innodb
plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb.so
plugin_dir=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/plugin
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MariaDB 5.5: an
opensource threadpool
• Modiﬁed from 5.1 (libevent
based), great for CPU
bound loads and short
running queries

• Windows (threadpool),
Linux (epoll), Solaris (event
ports), FreeBSD/OSX
(kevents)

• No minimization of
concurrent transactions
with dynamic pool size

• thread_handling=po
ol-of-threads
• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/
thread-pool-in-mariadb-55/
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Better for DBAs: non-
blocking client library
• start operation, do work
in thread, operation
processed, result travels
back

• use cases: multiple
queries against single
server (utilize more
CPUs); queries against
multiple servers
(SHOW STATUS on
many machines)

• https://
kb.askmonty.org/en/
about-non-blocking-
operation-in-the-
client-library/

• fast node.js driver
available: mariasql

• https://
kb.askmonty.org/en/
mariasql-for-nodejs/
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LIMIT ROWS
EXAMINED
• The purpose of this
optimization is to
provide the means to
terminate the execution
of SELECTstatements
which examine too
many rows, and thus use
too many resources.

•SELECT * from
t1, t2 LIMIT 10
ROWS EXAMINED
1000;
• https://kb.askmonty.org/
en/limit-rows-examined/
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SHOW STATUS
• SHOW STATUS provides server status
information. It is like mysqladmin extended-status.

•SHOW STATUS LIKE ‘Key%’;
• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/show-status/

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/server-status-variables/

• MariaDB has opened_views, executed_triggers,
executed_events, feature_* as new options
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SQL Error Logging
Plugin
• Log errors sent to clients in a log ﬁle that
can be analysed later. Log ﬁle can be rotated
(recommended)

• a MYSQL_AUDIT_PLUGIN

install plugin SQL_ERROR_LOG
soname 'sql_errlog.so';
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Replication: selective
skipping
• All changes that are logged as events in the
binlog are replicated to all slaves

• However, sometimes you want all to be logged
to binlog but skipped replication to slaves

• @@skip_replication (session only)

• replicate_events_marked_for_skip
= replicate|filter_on_slave|
filter_on_master (dynamic)
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Replication: dynamic
variables
• The variables replicate_do_*,
replicate_ignore_*, and replicate_wild_*
have been made dynamic, so they can be
changed without requiring a server restart.

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/dynamic-
replication-variables/
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Replication:Annotation
of RBR events
• MariaDB supports statement & row based
replication (RBR)

• In RBR, the binlog has no SQL statements,
only events are logged (INSERT, DELETE, etc)

• Option to include original SQL statement
(default OFF)

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/
annotate_rows_log_event/
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Replication: binlog
event checksums
• Backport from MySQL 5.6 (in MariaDB
5.3+)

• binlog_checksum option

• Slaves perform checksums on events
received & will stop if there is corruption

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/binlog-event-
checksums/
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Replication: group
commit in the binary log
•sync_binlog=1,
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit
=1
• https://www.facebook.com/note.php?
note_id=10150261692455933

• http://kb.askmonty.org/en/group-commit-for-
the-binary-log

• SHOW STATUS LIKE 'binlog_%commits';
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Replication: START TRANSACTION
WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT
• Works with the binlog, possible to obtain the binlog position
corresponding to a transactional snapshot of the database without
blocking any other queries.

• by-product of group commit in the binlog to view commit
ordering

• Used by the command mysqldump--single-transaction
--master-data to do a fully non-blocking backup which can be
used to provision a new slave

• Works consistently between transactions involving more than one
storage engine

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/enhancements-for-start-transaction-with-
consistent/
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GIS support!
• MySQL has OpenGIS SFS (Simple feature access, SQL
access method)

• Now, SQL with full geometry types

• ST_ preﬁx

• MyISAM,Aria for SPATIAL & non-spatial indexes

• Use Osmosis, you can load all OpenStreetMap data into
MariaDB now

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/gis-features-in-533/

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/openstreetmap-dataset/
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Progress reporting
• ALTER TABLE & LOAD DATA INFILE

MariaDB [mail]> alter table mail engine = maria;
Stage: 1 of 2 'copy to tmp table' 17.55% of stage done
MariaDB [mail]> select id, user, db, command, state,
-> time_ms, progress from information_schema.processlist;
+---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+
| command | state | time_ms | progress |
+---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+
| Query | copy to tmp table | 23407.131 | 17.551 |
+---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+
1 row in set (0.47 sec)
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TIME_MS in
I_S.PROCESSLIST
• Extra column 'TIME_MS' has been added to
the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST
table

• Units of milliseconds with microsecond
precision (the unit and precision of the
'TIME' column is one second).
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New KILL syntax
• HARD | SOFT & USER USERNAME are MariaDB-speciﬁc
(5.3.2)

• KILL QUERY ID query_id (10.0.5) - kill by query id, rather
than thread id

• SOFT ensures things that may leave a table in an inconsistent
state aren’t interrupted (like REPAIR or INDEX creation for
MyISAM or Aria)

KILL [HARD | SOFT] [CONNECTION | QUERY]
[thread_id | USER user_name]
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The old days
• Download MySQL, including sources

• Download SphinxSE for compiling

• Download Sphinx to compile with MySQL
support

• Documented: http://www.howtoforge.com/
sphinx-as-mysql-storage-engine-sphinxse
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Today
• Install sphinx from your distribution

• Install MariaDB 5.5 from your distribution
or from http://mariadb.org/

• Get started!
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Getting started
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN sphinx
SONAME 'ha_sphinx.so';!
Query OK, 0 rows affected
(0.01 sec)!
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What is SphinxSE?
• SphinxSE is just the storage engine that still
depends on the Sphinx daemon

• It doesn’t store any data itself

• Its just a built-in client to allow MariaDB to
talk to Sphinx searchd, run queries, obtain
results

• Indexing, searching is performed on Sphinx
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Conﬁgure sphinx!
• /usr/local/sphinx/sphinx.conf

• Source (multiple, include mysql, with
connection info)

• Setup indexer (esp. if its on localhost) -
mem_limit, max_iops, max_iosize

• Setup searchd (where to listen to, query
log, etc.)
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Use case scenarios
• Already have an existing application that
makes use of full-text-search in MyISAM?
Porting should be easier

• Have a programming language without a
native API for Sphinx? Surely there’s a
connector for MariaDB ;-)
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Use case scenarios
• Results from Sphinx itself almost always
require additional work involving MariaDB

• Say to pull out text column that Sphinx
index doesn’t store

• JOIN with another table (using a different
engine)
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An example
CREATE TABLE t1!
(!
id INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL,!
weight INTEGER NOT NULL,!
query VARCHAR(3072) NOT NULL,!
group_id INTEGER,!
INDEX(query)!
) ENGINE=SPHINX CONNECTION="sphinx://localhost:9312/test";!
!
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE query='test it;mode=any';!
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Sphinx search tables
• 1st column: INTEGER UNSIGNED or
BIGINT (document ID)

• 2nd column: match weight

• 3rd column: VARCHAR or TEXT (your
query)

• Query column needs indexing, no other
column needs to be
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What actually happens
• SELECT passes a Sphinx query as the query
column in the WHERE clause

• searchd returns the results

• SphinxSE translates and returns the results
to MariaDB
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What queries are
supported?
• Most of the Sphinx API is exposed to SphinxSE

• query, mode, sort, offset, limit, index, minid,
maxid, weights, ﬁlter, !ﬁlter, range, !range,
maxmatches, groupby, groupsort, indexweights,
comment, select

• Sphinx search modes can also be supported via
_sph attributes

• obtain value of @groupby? use ‘_sph_groupby’
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Efﬁciency
• Allow Sphinx to perform sorting, ﬁltering, and slicing
of result set

• ... as opposed to using WHERE, ORDER BY, LIMIT
clauses on MariaDB

• Why?

• Sphinx optimises and performs better on these
tasks

• Less data packed by searchd, and transferred and
unpacked by SphinxSE
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JOINs
• Perform JOINs on a SphinxSE search table using tables from other engines

SELECT content, date_added FROM test.documents docs!
-> JOIN t1 ON (docs.id=t1.id) !
-> WHERE query="one document;mode=any";!
+-------------------------------------+---------------------+!
| content | docdate |!
+-------------------------------------+---------------------+!
| this is my test document number two | 2006-06-17 14:04:28 | !
| this is my test document number one | 2006-06-17 14:04:28 | !
+-------------------------------------+---------------------+!
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)!
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User statistics
• Understand server activity better, identify
database loads http://kb.askmonty.org/v/
user-statistics

• Must be enabled ﬁrst

• /usr/local/Cellar/mariadb/5.2.7/bin/
mysqld_safe --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql
--userstat=1
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Table Elimination
• Resolve a query without accessing some
tables query refers to

• Great for querying highly normalised data

• Basis of “anchor modelling”

• http://www.anchormodeling.com/

• SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 11g have it
97

Virtual columns
• Columns that are an expression that are
calculated on retrieval

• PERSISTENT orVIRTUAL

• Similar to MS SQL or Oracle

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/virtual-columns/
98

Optimizer
enchancements
• Join additions

• block nested loop joins for outer-joins, block hash joins,
Batched Key Access (BKA)

• Optimization for derived tables & views

• mergeable derived tables processed likeVIEWs +
optimizer creates indexes over materialized derived
tables

• Disk access optimization

• Index Condition Pushdown (ICP), Multi-Range Read
(MRR)
99

Subquery optimizations
• Semi-join optimization,
materialization for non-
correlated IN queries,
subquery cache

!
!
!
• Goodbye rewriting as
JOINs or separate
queries
DBT-3, 60M rows, 29GB XtraDB
100

EXPLAIN
• INSTANT EXPLAIN

• EXPLAIN Analyzer -
https://mariadb.org/
explain_analyzer/
analyze/

• Optimizer feature
comparison matrix:
https://kb.askmonty.org/
en/optimizer-feature-
comparison-matrix/

• optimizer_switch
meanings: https://
mariadb.com/kb/en/
mariadb-53-
optimizer_switch/
102

DBT-3
• https://mariadb.com/kb/
en/dbt-3-dataset/

• https://blog.mariadb.org/
mariadb-5-3-optimizer-
benchmark/
103

Extended keys
• Default is extended_keys=on
• Extended Keys, introduced in MariaDB 5.5, is an
optimization which makes use of existing
components of InnoDB/XtraDB keys to generate
more efﬁcient execution plans. Using these
components in many cases allows the server to
generate execution plans which employ index-
only look-ups.

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/extended-keys/
104

NoSQL: HandlerSocket
• Comes with
HandlerSocket

• direct
access to
XtraDB/
InnoDB for
CRUD
operations

• INSTALL
PLUGIN
handlersoc
ket
SONAME
'handlersoc
ket.so';

• SQL:
105,000
qps (60%
usr, 28%
sys)

• memcached
: 420,000
qps (8% usr,
88% sys)

• HandlerSoc
ket:
750,000
qps (45%
usr, 53%
sys)
105

NoSQL: dynamic
columns
• Allows you to create virtual columns with dynamic content for
each row in table

• Basically a BLOB with handling functions

• Store different attributes for each item (like a web store). Hard to
do relationally

• In MariaDB 10.0: name support (instead of referring to columns by
numbers, name it), convert all dynamic column content to JSON
array, interface with Cassandra

• INSERT INTO tbl SET
dyncol_blob=COLUMN_CREATE("column_name", "value");

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/dynamic-columns/
106

Pluggable
authentication
• MariaDB & MySQL now uses password
authentication via pluggable auth

• Unix sockets

• PAM
107

PAM Authentication
• Authentication using /etc/shadow

• Authentication using LDAP, SSH pass phrases,
password expiration, username mapping, logging
every login attempt, etc.

• INSTALL PLUGIN pam SONAME ‘auth_pam.so’;

• CREATE USER foo@host IDENTIFIED via pam

• Remember to conﬁgure PAM (/etc/pam.d or /
etc/pam.conf)
108

Why MariaDB 10.0?
• The 5.5 merge took about a year (!)

• We (MariaDB-5.5) have over 1.5 million
lines of extra code with a ~61MB diff

• We didn’t want to repeat this for 5.6

• Also, MySQL 5.6 has a lot of re-factoring,
thus loosing commit history
110

In a nutshell
• Built on MariaDB 5.5

• Backported features from MySQL 5.6

• New features
111

What about tools?
• SELECTVERSION() will
return 10.0.1-MariaDB

• Oops, we found a bug in
MySQL: https://
mariadb.atlassian.net/
browse/MDEV-4088 &
http://bugs.mysql.com/
bug.php?id=68187

• Still deciding:

• Use 9.0 for a name

• Lie to clients (no)

• Disallow replication
(no)

• Use handshake packet
5.5.30-mysql-10.0.2-
MariaDB without
affectingVERSION() /
@@global.version
112

What about tools II?
• Tools really should recognise MariaDB
version as there are already many new
features that MySQL doesn’t have

• eg. HeidiSQL supports virtual columns
(http://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?
t=8671)
113

Versions
114
Date Version Status
12 Nov 2012 10.0.0 Alpha
6 Feb 2013 10.0.1 Alpha
24 Apr 2013 10.0.2 Alpha
11 June 2013 10.0.3 Alpha
16 Aug 2013 10.0.4 Alpha
7 Nov 2013 10.0.5 Beta
18 Nov 2013 10.0.6 Beta
27 Dec 2013 10.0.7 Beta
10 Feb 2014 10.0.8 RC
11 Mar 2014 10.0.9 RC
31 Mar 2014 10.0.10 GA

Backported features
(i.e. these are from MySQL 5.6)
115

InnoDB & XtraDB
• MariaDB 10.0 ships InnoDB from MySQL 5.6

• MariaDB 10 ships Percona XtraDB as default

• minimal performance improvements expected,
just functionality & features

• bitmap changed page tracking so xtrabackup
can do incremental backups without scanning
all InnoDB ﬁles

• SHOW GLOBALVARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_ver%';
116

More from MySQL 5.6
• PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

• InnoDB read-only transactions (TRANSACTION READ
ONLY)

• Optimizer:

• EXISTS-TO-IN optimization

• ORDER BY...LIMIT optimization (show only few rows
of a result set)

• CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as DEFAULT for DATETIME
columns (this is a re-implementation in MariaDB)
117

Only in MariaDB 10.0
the new stuff!
118

MariaDB 10 replication
• Global Transaction ID

• have complex replication topologies; simple failover & slave promotion

• doesn’t require restarts!

• new slave provisioning: SET GLOBAL GTID_SLAVE_POS =
BINLOG_GTID_POS("masterbin.00045", 600); CHANGE MASTER TO
master_host="192.168.2.4", master_use_gtid=slave_pos; START
SLAVE;

• turning on GTID for slaves: STOP SLAVE 
CHANGE MASTER TO master_use_gtid=current_pos; START SLAVE;

• change masters: STOP SLAVE 
CHANGE MASTER TO master_host="10.2.3.5"; START SLAVE;

• Crash-safe slaves - GTID position stored in InnoDB table
119

Multi-source replication
• Work from Taobao

• Many users partition data across many
masters... now you can replicate many
masters to a single slave

• Great for analytical queries, complete
backups, etc.

• https://kb.askmonty.org/en/multi-source-
replication/
120

Only in 10.0
• SHOW EXPLAIN for
<thread_id> (https://
mariadb.com/kb/en/show-
explain/) gets the query plan
of a running statement

• EXPLAIN ANALYZE
equivalent

• Faster ALTER TABLE with
unique keys for Aria &
MyISAM

• Segmented MyISAM
keycaches (up to 64) since
MariaDB 5.2 exist too

• Per-thread memory usage
(Taobao)

• I_S.PROCESSLIST has
MEMORY_USAGE &
EXAMINED_ROWS

• SHOW STATUS has
memory usage too
121

SHUTDOWN
• shuts down the server; requires GRANTs
similar to mysqladmin shutdown command

• you can create an event that does a
SHUTDOWN of the server as an
example…

• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/shutdown/
122

CassandraSE
• Integration with NoSQL/Big Data DB,Apache Cassandra cluster,
seen as a storage engine to MariaDB

• Combine (join) data between Cassandra & MariaDB

• Write to Cassandra from SQL (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE,
DELETE)

• CQL is great, but the goal is for you to just work with SQL, not
switch between CQL & SQL

• Data is mapped: rowkey, static columns, dynamic columns

• super columns aren’t supported

• No 1-1 direct map for data types (ref: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/
cassandra-storage-engine/)
124

LevelDB Storage Engine
• LevelDB is a key-value store, used even in
the Chrome web browser

• LevelDBSE supports single-statement
transactions, secondary indexes, crash-
proof slave replication, hot backups & more

• This is PoC work for RocksDB (see:
launchpad)
125

TokuDB
• Opensource - separate MariaDB 5.5+TokuDB/
integrated in 10.0.5

• Improved insert (10-20x faster) & query speed,
compression (up to 90% space reduction),
replication performance and online schema
ﬂexibility

• Uses Fractal Tree Indexes instead of B-Tree

• Tests & builds of TokuDB on multiple platforms
(think greater distribution)
126

CONNECT
• CONNECT will speak XML or even grab
data over an ODBC connection

• You can CONNECT to Oracle (via ODBC),
join results from Cassandra (via
CassandraSE) and have all your results sit in
InnoDB

• Turn on engine condition pushdown

• More later…
127

SPIDER
• Spider has built-in sharding features

• Partitioning & XA transaction capable

• Different MariaDB instance tables handled
like it is the same instance

• More later…
128

Engine-independent
persistent statistics
• InnoDB has persistent statistics in MySQL
5.6; we have an engine-independent version

• These statistics aren’t limited by the SE API,
and are used by query optimizer to choose
best execution plan for each statement

• Statistics collected for non-indexed
columns too (unlike InnoDB’s)
129

MariaDB 10.0.2
• Support for atomic writes on FusionIO
DirectFS

• Optimizer collects & can use histogram-based
statistics for non-indexed columns

• Better table discovery, so FederatedX has
assisted discovery, Sequence engine (creates
ascending/descending sequences, useful in joins)

• SHOW PLUGINS SONAME;
130

MariaDB 10.0.4
• SPIDER storage engine for database sharding
merged

• Audit plugin

• complete PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

• INFORMATION_SCHEMA with upstream
defaults too

• Online ALTER for InnoDB and thread
information for in-place operations
131

MariaDB 10.0.5
• Parallel replication - https://mariadb.com/
kb/en/parallel-replication/

• automatically detect independent
transactions, parallel within same table,
adapts to master load, and preserves
commit ordering

• EXPLAIN in the slow query log
132

MariaDB 10.0.6
• Serious incompatibility and data corruption
of DATETIME and DATE types due to
get_innobase_type_from_mysql_type
refactor combined with InnoDB Online DDL

• https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/
MDEV-5248

• Fixed upgrades from MySQL 5.1 -> MariaDB

• Parallel replication improvements
133

MariaDB 10.0.7
• Mostly bug ﬁxes, to stabilise the code

• XtraDB 5.6 merged (InnoDB still default)

• OQGraph v3 - stores data on disk,
persistent, larger graph support

• INFORMATION_SCHEMA.METADATA_L
OCK_INFO plugin to see active metadata
locks
134

MariaDB 10.0.8 (RC)
• Upgraded bundled PCRE library (GSoC)

• SQL Roles (10.0.4) + improvements
(GSoC)

• Upgraded InnoDB
135

MariaDB 10.0.9 (RC)
• InnoDB 5.6.15 (XtraDB
default; InnoDB plugin)

• Extended keys
optimization on by
default

• MASTER_GTID_WAIT(
) + @@last_gtid

• TIME casted to
DATETIME, date is
CURRENT_DATE not
0000-00-00 - SQL
standards compliant

• @@old_mode=ZER
O_DATE_TIME_CAS
T
136

MariaDB 10.0.10 (GA)
• audit plugin now ships

• XtraDB performance ﬁxed incorrect
calculation of ﬂushed pages

• TokuDB compression is now
TOKUDB_ZLIB

• Engine independent table statistics
improved
137

What about MySQL
5.6?
• We love the fact that many features we’ve worked on for
a long time are now in 5.6

• Optimizer enhancements

• Microseconds

• Binary log annotations

• Binary log group commit (10.0 has a newer faster version
now)

• Precise GIS

• Threadpool
138

What are we missing
from 5.6 currently?
• EXPLAIN output in JSON

• InnoDB memcached interface
139

Support
• Five years from every release
140

Benchmarks
• “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” - Mark Twain

• http://blog.mariadb.org/sysbench-oltp-
mysql-5-6-vs-mariadb-10-0/

• http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2013/02/
mysql-performance-mysql-56-vs-mysql-55-
vs-mariadb-55.html

• Yes, we’ve gotten Oracle to notice
MariaDB :-)
141

Continued
commitments
• Security

• Since about a year now, we’re the go-to people for security -
good track record

• We don’t like regressions

• http://www.skysql.com/blogs/hartmut/nasty-innodb-regression-
mysql-5525

• http://www.skysql.com/blogs/kolbe/heads-no-more-query-cache-
partitioned-tables-mysql-5523

• We care about backward compatibility & introduce features carefully

• XtraDB innodb_adaptive_checkpoint=none|reﬂex|estimate|
keep_average (no more reﬂex...)
142

We really care about
quality
• Automated test suite run upon every push

• Better QA & code coverage

• MySQL test cases: 1,765

• Percona Server test cases: 1,837

• MariaDB test cases: 2,180
143

MariaDB deployed
“MariaDB had these same bugs that we ran into with
MySQL. However the big difference was that when we
reported these bugs, they were quickly resolved within 48
hours!” -- Dreas van Donselaar, Chief Technology Ofﬁcer,
SpamExperts

B.V. after migrating over 300 servers from MySQL 5.0
to MariaDB 5.1.
“Migrating from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.2 was as simple
as removing MySQL RPMs and installing the MariaDB
packages, then running mysql_upgrade.” - Panayot Belchev,
proprietor, Host Bulgaria on providing

MariaDB to over 7,000 of their web hosting customers.
“We made the switch on Saturday --
and we’re seeing beneﬁts already -- our
daily optimization time is down from
24 minutes to just 4 minutes” -- Ali
Watters, CEO, travelblog.org
happy users: pap.fr, Paybox Services, OLX, Jelastic,
Web of Trust,Wikipedia, Craigslist, etc.
“@nginxorg & @mariadb
have helped me save
$12000/year in
infrastructure cost. I love it!
Do more with less!” -
Ewdison Then, CEO,
Slashgear
We upgraded the support.mozilla.org
databases from Percona 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5.
One of the engineers and I had a
conversation where he mentioned that “one
of our worst performing views on SUMO is
doing waaaayyy better with the upgraded
databases”, that it “seems more stable” and
that “I stopped receiving ‘MySQL went away
or disconnected emails’ which came in once
in a while.” - Sheeri Cabral, Mozilla IT
144

Resources
• http://mariadb.org/

• http://kb.askmonty.org/

• http://planet.mysql.com/
145

Books
• MariaDB Crash Course, Ben Forta
(September 2011)

• Getting Started with MariaDB, Daniel
Bartholomew (October 2013)

• MariaDB Cookbook, Daniel Bartholomew
(March 2014)
146

Other great talks this
week
• 2 April 11:30AM - 12:20PM @ Ballroom F
ASYNCHRONOUS MYSQL: HOW FACEBOOK
QUERIES DATABASES

• 2 April 11:30AM - 12:20PM @ Ballroom G HOW WE
GOT REPLICATION 10X FASTER BY USING
MARIADB 10.0.

• 2 April 3:50PM - 4:40PM @ Ballroom E MARIADB 10.0:
WHAT'S NEW

• 2 April 4:50PM - 5:40PM @ Ballroom A MAXSCALE,
THE PLUGGABLE ROUTER
147

Other great talks this
week
• 3 April 1:00PM - 1:50PM @ Ballroom H MARIADB: NEW
STORAGE ENGINES

• 3 April 4:30PM - 5:20PM @ Ballroom E MARIADB
OPTIMIZER: SEE? NO INDEXES!

• 4 April 12:50PM - 1:40PM @ Ballroom C XTRADB 5.6:
KEY PERFORMANCE ALGORITHMS

• 4 April 12:50PM - 1:40PM @ Ballroom H MYSQL AT
TUMBLR

• 4 April 3:00PM - 3:50PM @ Ballroom C MARIADB FOR
DEVELOPERS
148

Q&A / Enjoy lunch
colin@mariadb.org / ivan@skysql.com
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