MariaDB Server & MySQL Security Essentials 2016

Presented at the MySQL Chicago Meetup in August 2016. The focus of the talk is on backups and verification, replication and failover, as well as security and encryption.

Best practices for MySQL/MariaDB Server/Percona Server High Availability - presented at Percona Live Amsterdam 2016. The focus is on picking the right High Availability solution, discussing replication, handling failure (yes, you can achieve a quick automatic failover), proxies (there are plenty), HA in the cloud/geographical redundancy, sharding solutions, how newer versions of MySQL help you, and what to watch for next.

Presented at Percona Live Amsterdam 2016, this is an in-depth look at MariaDB Server right up to MariaDB Server 10.1. Learn the differences. See what's already in MySQL. And so on.

This document discusses MariaDB plugins and provides examples of several useful plugins, including authentication plugins, password validation plugins, SQL error logging, audit logging, query analysis, and more. It encourages contributing plugins to help extend MariaDB's functionality.

An introduction to MongoDB from an experienced MySQL user and developer. There are differences and we go thru the What/Why/Who/Where of MongoDB, the "similarities" to the MySQL world like storage engines, how replication is a little more interesting with built-in sharding and automatic failover, backups, monitoring, DBaaS, going to production and finding out more resources.

MySQL features missing in MariaDB Server. Here's an overview from the New York developer's Unconference in February 2018. This is primarily aimed at the developers, to decide what goes into MariaDB 10.4, as opposed to users. High level comparisons are made between MySQL 5.6/5.7 with of course MySQL 8.0 as well. Here's to ensuring MariaDB Server 10/310.4 has more "Drop-in" compatibility.

At the MariaDB Server Developer's meeting in Amsterdam, Oct 8 2016. This was the deck to talk about what MariaDB Server 10.1/10.2 might be missing from MySQL versions up to 5.7. The focus is on compatibility of MariaDB Server with MySQL.

MariaDB 10: The Complete Tutorial for all the features within MariaDB 10. Presented at Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014 in Santa Clara

Failure happens, and we can learn from it. We need to think about backups, but also verification of them. We should definitely make use of replication and think about automatic failover. And security is key, but don't forget that encryption is now available in MySQL, Percona Server and MariaDB Server.

This document discusses MySQL proxy technologies including MySQL Router, ProxySQL, and MariaDB MaxScale. It provides an overview of each technology, including when they were released, key features, and comparisons between them. ProxySQL is highlighted as a popular option currently with integration with Percona tools, while MySQL Router may become more widely used due to its support for MySQL InnoDB Cluster. MariaDB MaxScale is noted for its binlog routing capabilities. Overall the document aims to help people understand and choose between the different MySQL proxy options.

This document provides an overview and summary of MariaDB 10 features presented by Ivan Zoratti. It discusses new features in MariaDB 10 like storage engines, administration improvements, and replication capabilities. The document also summarizes optimization enhancements in MariaDB 10 like the new optimizer, improved indexing techniques, and subquery optimizations. Various agenda topics are outlined for the MariaDB 10 tutorial.

MariaDB started life as a database to host the Maria storage engine in 2009. Not long after its inception, the MySQL community went through yet another change in ownership, and it was deemed that MariaDB will be a complete database branch developed to extend MySQL, but with constant merging of upstream changes. The goal of the MariaDB project is to ensure that everyone is part of the community, including employees of the major steering companies. MariaDB also features enhanced features, some of which are common with the Percona Performance Server. Most importantly, MariaDB is a drop-in replacement and is completely backward compatible with MySQL. In 2010, MariaDB released 5.1 in February, and 5.2 in November – two major releases in a span of one calendar year is a feat that was achieved! DBAs and developers alike will gain an introduction to MariaDB, what is different with MySQL, how to make use of the feature enhancements, and more.

The document provides an overview of the Complete MariaDB Server Tutorial presentation. It introduces MariaDB and discusses what it is, its goals of being compatible with MySQL and having stable releases. It also covers MariaDB architecture, installation, utilities, and storage engines.

MySQL and MariaDB are becoming more divergent. Learn what is different from a high level. It is also a good idea to ensure that you use the correct database for the correct job.

The myriad reasons why you want to use MariaDB over stock MySQL. Current up to MariaDB 5.3, and presented at Percona Live London 2011.

You're a busy DBA thinking about having to maintain a mix of this. Or you're a CIO planning to choose one branch over another. How do you go about picking? Supporting multiple databases? Find out more in this talk. Also covered is a deep-dive into what feature differences exist between MySQL/Percona Server/MariaDB Server. Within 20 minutes, you'll leave informed and knowledgable on what to pick. A base blog post to get started: https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-reality-check/

MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL that aims to be a drop-in replacement. It focuses on being compatible, stable with no regressions, and feature-enhanced compared to MySQL. The presentation covered MariaDB's architecture including connections, query caching, storage engines, and tools for administration and development like mysql, mysqldump, and EXPLAIN.

Forking Successfully or do you think a branch will work better? Learn from history, see what's current, etc. Presented at OSCON London 2016. This is forking beyond the github generation. And if you're going to do it, some tips on how you could be successful.

Presented at DataStax Cassandra Conference 2013 in San Francisco. Learn about using MariaDB with the Cassandra Storage Engine.

Peter Jamieson, Miami University Lindsay Grace, American University Naoki Mizuno; Chris Bell; Darrell Davis, Miami University

The document summarizes the history and current state of the MySQL database server ecosystem. It discusses the origins and development of MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, and other related projects. It also describes some of the key features and innovations in recent versions of these database servers. The ecosystem is very active with contributions from many organizations and the future remains promising with ongoing work.

This document discusses the forking of open source software, using MySQL and MariaDB as a case study. It describes how MariaDB was forked from MySQL in 2009 after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and MySQL AB. This was done to ensure the continued open development of MySQL. Since then, MariaDB has grown into a successful open source database with a large community and adoption by organizations like Wikipedia. The document outlines the open development practices of MariaDB and how forking can both influence a project and ensure its long term success and viability.

The document describes how to undelete rows from MySQL binary logs without doing a full point-in-time recovery. It shows deleting a row from a table, finding the delete event in the binary log, decoding the event, rebuilding it as a write event, and replaying it to undo the delete. This allows quickly undeleting rows by manipulating the binary log directly rather than doing a slow full restore.

A last minute talk for the people at DevOps Amsterdam, happening around the same time as O'Reilly Velocity Amsterdam 2016. Here are lessons one can learn from distributed/remote/virtual communities and companies from someone that has spent a long time being remote and distributed.

The document discusses geobased augmented reality content management in the cloud. It provides examples of augmentations created by HOPPALA including Hoppala Goes Easter 3D, Woombamania 3D, and a virtual public art project along the Berlin Wall. It also outlines the native development and browser architecture used to display augmentations, and provides examples of augmentation metadata formats.

This was a short 25 minute talk, but we go into a bit of a history of MySQL, how the branches and forks appeared, what's sticking around today (branch? Percona Server. Fork? MariaDB Server). What should you use? Think about what you need today and what the roadmap holds.

Simple tips to improve Server Security In these times, it’s very essential to secure your servers from the outside as well as from customers using the server. This session will show some basic methods on how to protect your server(s). Pulkit Gupta CEO & Chief Architect Softaculous

(Stephane Maarek, DataCumulus) Kafka Summit SF 2018 Security in Kafka is a cornerstone of true enterprise production-ready deployment: It enables companies to control access to the cluster and limit risks in data corruption and unwanted operations. Understanding how to use security in Kafka and exploiting its capabilities can be complex, especially as the documentation that is available is aimed at people with substantial existing knowledge on the matter. This talk will be delivered in a “hero journey” fashion, tracing the experience of an engineer with basic understanding of Kafka who is tasked with securing a Kafka cluster. Along the way, I will illustrate the benefits and implications of various mechanisms and provide some real-world tips on how users can simplify security management. Attendees of this talk will learn about aspects of security in Kafka, including: -Encryption: What is SSL, what problems it solves and how Kafka leverages it. We’ll discuss encryption in flight vs. encryption at rest. -Authentication: Without authentication, anyone would be able to write to any topic in a Kafka cluster, do anything and remain anonymous. We’ll explore the available authentication mechanisms and their suitability for different types of deployment, including mutual SSL authentication, SASL/GSSAPI, SASL/SCRAM and SASL/PLAIN. -Authorization: How ACLs work in Kafka, ZooKeeper security (risks and mitigations) and how to manage ACLs at scale

This document discusses Kafka security and provides tips for implementing it. It covers the three main aspects of Kafka security: encryption, authentication, and authorization. For encryption, it explains how to set up SSL and discusses options for end-to-end encryption. Authentication details how to use SSL client authentication or SASL mechanisms like Kerberos or PLAIN. Authorization explains managing access control lists (ACLs) stored in Zookeeper to control access. The document concludes by emphasizing the challenges of securing Kafka clients and provides advice like creating standardized client wrappers and Docker images.

MySQL is the most popular database on the web but how do you keep your data safe as it is virtualized, contained, put into the cloud, replicated, and sharded out to servers where DBAs have minimal actual control.

The importance of security in 2013, with more websites getting hacked daily and penetration testers being one of the most the requested IT jobs. Develops need to be sure how secure their applications against threads like SQL injection, cross site scripting, weak passwords, brute force or dictionary attacks.

SQL Server has been running on Windows for years. Now Microsoft is making it available on Linux in order to provide a consistent database platform across Window and Linux servers, as well as on-premises and in the cloud. In this presentation, Janis Griffin, database performance evangelist at SolarWinds, discusses the advantages of using SQL Server on Linux, comparing architecture, cost and performance.

This document provides tips and best practices for staying sane as a Drupal developer. It discusses that 80% of building Drupal sites is configuration, while the remaining 20% requires customization. It emphasizes using Drupal APIs and hooks, playing well with contributed modules, and following coding standards and best practices like version control, automated testing and deployment, and documentation.

An Overview of MySQL 5.7 Security Features. Presented in MySQL User Camp's Bangalore Edition on March 11, 2016.

This document discusses database security and best practices for securing MySQL databases. It covers common database vulnerabilities like poor configurations, weak authentication, lack of encryption, and improper credential management. It also discusses database attacks like SQL injection and brute force attacks. The document provides recommendations for database administrators to properly configure access controls, encryption, auditing, backups and monitoring to harden MySQL databases.

You have lots of data you have painstakingly collected over the years. How do you ensure that data is protected from hackers, spies and other ne’er-do-wells? Understanding the vast array of security features available in SQL Server is the first step in helping you determine what actions you need to take now to protect your data. Fonts used: SkyFall Done Calibri