Aria

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Aria is a storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system. Its goal is to make a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. It is not yet transactional but plans to add proper support for database transactions at some point in the future. The long-term goal is for Aria to be the default transactional and non-transactional storage engine for MySQL. It has been in development since 2007 and was first announced by Michael "Monty" Widenius on his blog.^[1] Aria is the default storage engine of MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database led by Widenius.

The Maria project is hosted on Launchpad.

Aria was initially named 'Maria', as a reference to Monty's youngest child.^[2] It was renamed Aria in 2010 to avoid confusion with the main database it is developed for.^[3]

See also

Free software portal

• Falcon
• InnoDB
• MyISAM
• XtraDB

References

External links

• Official website
• Maria FAQ
• Maria Docs
• The Maria engine is released - written by Michael Widenius (founder of MySQL AB)
• Maria: The new MySQL Storage Engine at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video) - A talk given by Michael Widenius

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