The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.25 Alpha. This is an Alpha release. What is it? * A straight merge of MariaDB 5.5.25 with Galera Cluster by Codership * An alpha release which should not be used in production environments * Using the Galera replication methodology, users get: * Synchronous, multi-master replication with guaranteed data consistency. * This solution provides both read & write scalability The links below have more information. Compatibility? MariaDB Galera Cluster is fully data-compatible with MariaDB or MySQL, as it will work with the standard databases created by these products. There are next to none or very minimal application changes that are required to make the solution work. Where can I get it? See the links below. What's next? The plan is for a rapid release cycle to heavily test the performance and usage of MariaDB Galera Cluster in different environments. Please file bugs at: https://mariadb.atlassian.net Quotes: Seppo Jaakola, CEO for Codership "It's great that we are working closely with an upstream provider of a MySQL-compatible binary, MariaDB. We no longer have to spend time coding against out-of-tree changes as we're part of MariaDB. The excellent MariaDB engineering team constantly releases new versions of MariaDB with high quality assurance (QA). Codership will continue to collaborate closely with the MariaDB engineering team to improve the product and make new versions of the MariaDB Galera Cluster available." Michael "Monty" Widenius, CEO for Monty Program Ab "We've received a significant amount of requests for a MariaDB based Galera cluster and today we're proud to deliver that. We're currently preparing ourselves and our partners for a rollout of the GA product and related professional services via SkySQL to run critical systems on top of MariaDB Galera Cluster." The MariaDB Team will together with Codership work on customer requests and demands in the areas of cluster and replication. Please contact us if you are interested in any services we can offer around Galera, MariaDB or MySQL. http://montyprogram.com/contact - - MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.25 Links - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release Notes: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-galera-5525-release-notes Changelog: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-galera-5525-changelog Downloads: http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb-galera/5.5.25 YUM Repository Configuration Generator: http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb-galera/repositories (APT repositories are not available at this time.) Overview of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-galera-cluster More information: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/galera - - Where else to find us - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://mariadb.org We're also on: Facebook: http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+: http://google.com/+mariadb Follow, friend, and add us to your circles to keep up to date with MariaDB! -- MariaDB: An Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL