What’s  MariaDB : is an community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under the GNU GPL, as opposed to any uncertainty of MySQL license status under its current ownership by Oracle. The contributors are required … Continue reading →

Chive 0.5.0 released,  Chive is another alternative for PhpMyadmin, it is a next generation MySQL database management tool. The web-based user interface supports most of the common operations needed by software developers and database admins (databases, tables, indices, keys, triggers, … Continue reading →

Non-relational databases are an alternative to SQL databases and would rather call themselves ‘big data DBs’, say the pros in the industry. Calling non-relational databases as ‘No SQL’ is in a way misleading as this a ‘dynamic’ database platform. The … Continue reading →

This is a nice script  to automatically backup your MySQL tables and send them to your email. 

To backup all or some of your MySQL databases, you’ll need mysqldump which comes bundled with mysql. If you have MySQL installed, you probably have mysqldump installed already.

Cassandra is a distributed database with a BigTable data model running on a Dynamo like infrastructure. It is column-oriented and allows for the storage of relatively structured data. It has a fully decentralized model; every node is identical and there … Continue reading →

After Twitter and digg, now is Reddit who announced yesterday that they switched their database to NoSQL Cassandra database; this is the second big social bookmark  that switch to cassandra in two days. As i mentioned in my previous article, … Continue reading →

After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation … Continue reading →

In this short Howto, want to show you how to grant remote access to a DB on your server local or remote server .