Connectors now available to the MySQL® community as part of the MariaDB open source project

Helsinki – November 29, 2012 – Monty Program, the home of MariaDB, owned by MySQL®-database-creator Monty Widenius and its employees, and SkySQL, the trusted provider of open source database solutions, today announced the immediate availability of their connectors, ‘MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications’, to the wider MySQL® database community in the permissive LGPL licence.

With this announcement, the connectors become part of the wider MariaDB open source project, to which users will be able to contribute via relevant online resources.

Good news for open source developers

This announcement is relevant for users involved with applications built in C or Java language that also make use of a MariaDB and/or MySQL database, as these require a connector to ensure that the applications & the databases can talk to each other.

News Highlights

As part of their ongoing efforts to contribute innovation and technology to the wider MySQL database and open source user communities, Monty Program & SkySQL today announced the availability of the MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications.

Up until recently, the two companies had been working on the connectors as a joint internal project used for specific customer requirements and they are now making their connectors generally available to the community as part of the MariaDB open source project.

Connectors enable users to connect from a given application to a database, in this case the MySQL & MariaDB databases. Commercial maintenance & support for the servers and connectors will be available via SkySQL’s Enterprise Data Suite.

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Supporting quotes:

“These connectors have been an internal SkySQL/Monty Program project long enough and it was time to make them available to the wider MySQL user community,” said Monty Widenius, CEO of Monty Program. “The connectors will add value to the MariaDB project by making our database technology and the MariaDB project itself easier for everyone to use. If anything, we’re opening the MariaDB project even further to the community and demonstrating that innovation happens with MariaDB.”

“We’ve been seeing a strong demand for connectors from the MySQL database ecosystem. We are looking for means to ensure that the ecosystem prospers and that both users and developers have a rich set of options. We believe that these connectors will help to stimulate innovation in the ecosystem,” added Patrik Sallner, CEO of SkySQL. “Helping organisations out there adopt the MySQL and MariaDB databases more easily for their software projects also reinforces our position as the one-stop shop for all things to do with the MySQL and MariaDB databases.”

About SkySQL

SkySQL is the trusted provider of open source database solutions for MySQL and MariaDB users – in the enterprise and cloud, providing over 300 enterprise customers including Canal+, ClubMed, Constant Contact, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin Mobile, Western Digital and XING with database deployment and management solutions.

With 250+ years of original MySQL experience, SkySQL has the leading MySQL talent pool with sponsorship by the original MySQL and MariaDB creators. It has also developed cloud-based database management solutions that bring ease of use, while providing an effective way to increase database productivity both in the enterprise and the cloud.

For more information, please visit www.skysql.com, and follow the company’s conversations on Twitter and Facebook.

About Monty Program

Monty Program Ab was founded by Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL®. Monty Program is a center of engineering excellence for MariaDB, the Aria storage engine, MySQL®, and other associated technologies.

More than half of our staff are full-time developers, including most of the original MySQL engineers, some new personnel, and Monty. We have a better knowledge of the core MySQL® code than any other company! We are well funded and all of our plans and strategies take a long-term view.

For more information, visit: http://montyprogram.com

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