Dissecting the architecture of Google AlloyDB, Amazon Aurora, and MariaDB Xpand
Welcome AlloyDB Recently, Google announced their AlloyDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS) product, whose design looks strikingly similar to that of AWS Aurora […]
MariaDB Xpand Crunches Cockroach with Sysbench
Benchmark shows MariaDB Xpand outscales and outperforms CockroachDB.
How Xpand Works: Examining Distributed Continuation, Distributed Join and Distributed Aggregates
MariaDB Xpand is serverless architecture par excellence. A discussion of the architecture, how it works, and how it delivers outstanding performance.
How Parallel Replication Works in Xpand
Use cases, architecture, and performance proofs for MariaDB Xpand 6.0 new parallel replication.
How Columnar Indexes Work in Xpand
MariaDB Xpand is a distributed SQL database that offers built-in HA and linear scalability. This blog explains the newest feature in Xpand, columnar indexing which enables faster analytical queries.
Understanding Consistency
What good is data at scale if it is wrong? This blog reviews isolation and its effects on overall data consistency.
Announcing General Availability of Distributed SQL in a Feature-rich Release of MariaDB SkySQL
This new release of SkySQL includes the GA of Xpand, MariaDB’s distributed SQL database, support across AWS and GCP, and MaxScale redundancy.
How MariaDB Achieves Global Scale with Xpand
A new MariaDB storage engine provides distributed SQL and massive scalability with a shared nothing architecture, fully distributed ACID transactions, and strong consistency.