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MariaDB Enterprise Server vs. MariaDB Community Server

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:48:47 +0000

MariaDB Enterprise Platform

The MariaDB Enterprise Platform is available on-premises and on the MariaDB SkySQL DBaaS (Cloud database platform). MariaDB Enterprise Platform consists of:

MySQL Enterprise Backup Support Matrix

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:23 +0000

MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) is a bit limited related to support of older MySQL versions. So you should consider the following release matrix:

FromDual Enterprise Tools License

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:10:27 +0000

The FromDual Enterprise Tools are licensed under a FromDual commercial license. The one exception is MyEnv which is licensed under GPLv2.

Advanced MySQL Enterprise Training by FromDual

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:29:05 +0000

Due to the increasing demand FromDual has developed an Advanced MySQL Enterprise Training for DBAs and DevOps. After testing this training extensively with some selected customers last year we offer this MySQL Enterprise Training in 2018 for a broader audience.

MySQL Enterprise Backup Incremental Cumulative and Differential Backup

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:20:32 +0000

Preparing the MySQL Enterprise Administrator Training I found that the MySQL Enterprise Backup Incremental Backup is not described very well. Thus I tried it out and wrote down this how-to:

What are the differences between MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise Server 5.7

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:26:55 +0000

The MySQL Server itself

The differences between the MySQL Community Server and the MySQL Enterprise Server 5.7 are as follows as claimed by Oracle:

How to build your own RPM repository for MySQL Enterprise Server 5.7 on RHEL 7

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:01:26 +0000

Prepare the RPM repository server

Install the software to create a RPM repository server (on an Ubuntu web server):

How to Install MySQL Enterprise Server 5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:03:42 +0000

If you have already Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) or CentOS 7 in use you probably found out, that it is not that easy to install MySQL Enterprise Server because there are already pre-installed MariaDB 5.5 libraries:

MySQL Enterprise Incremental Backup simplified

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:41:17 +0000

MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) has the capability to make real incremental (differential and cumulative?) backups. The actual releases are quite cool and you should really look at it…

Download MySQL Enterprise Features

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:47:14 +0000

MySQL provides some great enterprise features beside the MySQL Server. The ones we are asked the most at customers are:

Support policy for MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:46:54 +0100

Distribution maintenance policies
MariaDB Lifetime Support Matrix for MariaDB Releases
MariaDB Corp Enterprise Support Subscriptions
MySQL Lifetime Support Matrix for MySQL Releases
Oracle Corp Enterprise Support Subscriptions for MySQL
PostgreSQL Versioning Policy
Database Support by FromDual

Distribution maintenance policies

Maintenance policies for Long Term Support (LTS) releases of common distributions: