Definition of MariaDB Versions
MariaDB is a one of most popular servers in the world and it is open resource relational database management with oracle database management such as transparent sharding, instant schema changes, roll back as well as some advanced features like JSON. MariaDb is available for all repositories of major repositories for the UNIX operating system. Another way we can say it is another child version of MySql with some limitations. The MariaDB is a very easy upgrade and basically the MariaDB is created binary files and that is compatible with MySql version in which generally all path and file name are same as well as record and table are binary compatible.
Top 11 MariaDB Version
Basically MariaDB has different versions as follows.
1. MariaDB Server 10.6
This is the main current development version of MariaDB but yet not released. MariaDB 10.5 is the current and stable version. In 10.6 they improve some functionality as well as it have new feature
2. MariaDB Server 10.5
Actually 10.5 is a current version of MariaDB. This version is a stable version of MariaDB and it was released in June 2020 and it will be supported up to June 2025. In this release MariaDB included a Columnstore storage engine and it has a series of different release versions.
3. MariaDB Server 10.4
10.4 is a previous version of MariaDB and its stable version, it was released in June 2019 and valid up to or we can say it is supported June 2024. The main feature of this version is that authentication means it provides different functions to users such as password expiry, account locking facility as well as other authentication plug-in and it has a series of different release versions.
4. MariaDB Server 10.3
The 10.3 is a previous version of MariaDB server. This is the first stable version of MariaDB server and it was released in May 2018 and valid up to May 2023 and it has a series of different release versions. In this version basically focus on syntax and general features of MariaDB server as follows.
- It provides AS OF functionality.
- Row type supported by local SP variable.
- It also supported aggregate
- It also supports the LIMIT clause and FOR statement.
- Create sequence, show sequence, alter sequence and drop sequence.
- It supported DDL command, delete statement and update statement.
- As well as order by clause and date format.
- It also allows us to create packages, drop packages, show packages, create package body, drop package body and show package body etc.
5. MariaDB Server 10.2
The 10.2 is an old version of MariaDB Server and it was released in May 2017 and valid up to May 2022 and it has a series of different release versions. In this version of MariaDB server the default storage engine is InnoDB as well as it also introduces some new features as follows.
- It supports checkpoint, create user, alter user and show user.
- In this version decimal numbers are increased 30 to 38.
- It supports executing immediate statements
6. MariaDB Server 10.1
This is also one version of MariaDB and it was released in Oct 2014 and valid up to Oct 2020. The feature of this version is Galera. The Galera is a one type cluster in MariDB server and it virtually synchronous multi-master solution in MariaDB server, it runs only on Linux operating system platform statements and it has a series of different release versions.
7. MariaDB Server 10.0
This is the one of the versions of MariaDB server and it was released in March 2014 and it is valid up to Jan 2019 and it has a series of different release versions. Some key feature added in this version as follows
- System Variable added.
- Parallel Replication also added in this version.
- Connect Storage is also available in this version.
- Global Transaction ID also available in this version.
- Multi Resource introduced in this version means that the single server has a multiple master.
- Show Explain Statement.
- Shutdown statement etc.
8. MariaDB Server 5.5
The 5.5 version of MariaDB is the oldest version and it was released in April 2012 and valid up to April 2020 and it has a series of different release versions. It introduced main comparison matrix features and it also introduced some other features as follows.
- This version is more suitable for thread pools.
- This version of MariaDB is supported to Non Blocking Operation,
- The status variable command is also available in this version and it is useful to take user feedback.
9. MariaDB Server 5.3
This is the very first version of MariaDB server and it was released in April 2010 and valid up to Jan 2013 this is no longer supported and it has a series of different release versions. In this version MariaDB introduced new storage engines such as OQGRAPH and SphinxSE in which OQGRAPH is useful to handle tree structure and complex graphs and SphinxSE is used to text search with MariaDB server and it allows running search queries in MariaDB.
10. MariaDB Server 5.2
This is the very earliest version of MariaDB server and it was released in April 2010 and the last series of this version was released in Jan 2013 and it has a series of different release versions. Key version of this version is the same as version 5.3 as well as some other features as follows.
- Extended User Statistics.
- Pluggable Authentication.
- Group Commit.
11. MariaDB Server 5.1
This is the very first version of MariaDB server and it was released in Oct 2009 and last series release in Jan 2013, it has a different series of releases. It has different storage engines such as XtraDB, Aria and FederatedX etc.
Conclusion
We hope from this article you have understood about the version of MariaDB Server. From the above article we have learned a different version of MariaDB Server. We also learned the key point of each version in MariaDB. From this article we learned how and when we use MariaDB Server.
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