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MariaDb Essentials

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MariaDb Essentials

Overview of this book

This book will take you through all the nitty-gritty parts of MariaDB, right from the creation of your database all the way to using MariaDB’s advanced features. At the very beginning, we show you the basics, that is, how to install MariaDB. Then, we walk you through the databases and tables of MariaDB, and introduce SQL in MariaDB. You will learn about all the features that have been added in MariaDB but are absent in MySQL. Moving on, you’ll learn to import and export data, views, virtual columns, and dynamic columns in MariaDB. Then, you’ll get to grips with full-text searches and queries in MariaDb. You’ll also be familiarized with the CONNECT storage engine. At the end of the book, you’ll be introduced to the community of MariaDB.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
MariaDB Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Full-text searches in MySQL and MariaDB


Until MySQL 5.6, full-text searches were only available with the MyISAM tables. But since full-text searches were implemented in InnoDB, you can also use them with this engine.

As for MySQL, MariaDB provides full-text searches with the MyISAM tables and with the Aria tables, which are the crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. Full-text searches have also been implemented in InnoDB with MariaDB 10.0.5. But the real difference from MySQL has been the introduction of a new storage engine, Mroonga, in MariaDB 10.0.15. This storage engine allows the use of a full-text search engine, Groonga, via SQL.