MariaDB 5.2 is no longer maintained. Please use a more recent release.
30 Jan 2013
Stable (GA)
contains features that didn't have time to go into . For all practical purposes it's a drop in replacement for (and thus MySQL 5.1).
is based on and thus MySQL 5.1.
The new features in 5.2 are quite isolated and as most have been in use by members in the MySQL community for a long time. Current versions of are and can be downloaded from .
Allows you to handle hierarchies (tree structures) and complex graphs (nodes having many connections in several directions)
: Text search within MariaDB.
A built-in Sphinx client which allows MariaDB to talk to searchd, run search queries, and obtain search results.
Columns that are an expression and are calculated on retrieval.
Client, User, Index and Table statistics.
We have also done several smaller speed improvements, bug fixes and code cleanups.
For a complete list of security vulnerabilities (CVEs) fixed across all versions of MariaDB, see the page.
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The key cache's global mutex is split into several mutex which gives a notable speed improvement under multi user load. We have registered up to thanks to this.
Authentication is done via an extensible plugin, which makes it easy to add any kind of authentication to MariaDB.
Allows one to specify additional attributes per field, index or table to the storage engine.
We expose more information about the plugins, like maturity levels.
for the engine.
Speeds up multi user inserts.
29 Nov 2012
Stable (GA)
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Stable (GA)
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Stable (GA)
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Stable (GA)
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Stable (GA)
3 Mar 2011
Stable (GA)
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Stable (GA)
10 Nov 2010
Stable (GA)
28 Sep 2010
Release Candidate
18 Jun 2010
Beta
10 Apr 2010
Beta
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