How do you select a database in practice? How do you pretend to select it? And, if you want to be serious, how do you select it logically?
Those are the key questions I dug into, during my keynote last week at Percona Live Online.
For those who feel they don’t want to listen to the entire 30 minute video of the presentation, I have compiled a number of entry points for you below:
- 0:23 Silly hat meme, “Teknologmössa”
- 2:19 Agenda
- 2:43 Choosing a database in practice
- 3:59 Pretending to choose a database
- 5:00 Triggers for making a fresh choice
- 5:51 Monetary impulses
- 7:53 Database lifecycle impulses
- 10:07 MariaDB 5.5 on Github
- 11:24 Framework for database choice: 1. Technology 2. Business 3. Ethics
- 13:49 Technology questions within framework
- 15:21 NoSQL in MariaDB – native JSON support
- 15:41 “Non-relational persistent data considered evil”
- 18:30 “Closed source databases considered evil”
- 18:41 DBS Bank migrated off Oracle to MariaDB 10.3
- 19:47 Choosing a database logically
- 19:57 “This is a sensitive topic”
- 20:25 Picking Postgres vs picking MySQL/MariaDB
- 21:24 Picking MariaDB vs picking MySQL
- 21:54 Questions meant to help you make the right choice
- 22:32 The importance of presence in Linux distributions
- 22:50 The release model: the importance of separating feature releases from bug fix releases
- 23:28 Business questions within framework
- 23:54 Controlling the roadmap of the database
- 24:46 Ethical questions within framework
- 25:30 Comparing Planet MySQL and Planet MariaDB blacklisting and whitelisting
- 26:27 Hats off to Oracle for taking care of MySQL much better than I had thought
- 26:58 Hats off to Percona for helping to keep MySQL alive
- 27:13 Ethical questions: attitude to openness
- 27:59 Ethical questions: governance
- 28:01 MariaDB Corporation
- 28:18 MariaDB Foundation
- 28:43 Checks and balances in governance
- 29:02 Backwards Compatibility, data formats not changing
- 29:35 Promoting health: Solstice Run 20 June 2020 – let’s do some running!
- 30:29 Concluding words: We need your help to make your path of least resistance point towards MariaDB Server
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