MariaDB Release 5.1; What Is It and What to Expect From It

MariaDB 5.1 is branch of MySQL 5.1 and is drop in replacement for MySQL 5.1 with additional features, speed enhancements and bug fixes.

The talk will describe in detail MariaDB 5.1 features, how they compare with MySQL and how you can best use them.

The talk also explains the challenges we have had to do this fork, and the various systems (like buildbot) that we used to build the binaries and how we are working with the MariaDB/MySQL community.

This talk also includes information how we plan to continue developing MariaDB so that it still a drop in replacement of MySQL as times goes by.