After testing the latest Storage Engine in the MariaDB family, DuckDB, I wanted to test another storage engine about which I had only heard good things: TideSQL. TideSQL is the name of the pluggable storage engine for MariaDB Server powered…
MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. The idea is very interesting: use MariaDB Server as usual, but create some tables using ENGINE=DuckDB…
We are concluding our series related to new data types using the Type_handler framework, with some limitations that are not yet covered by the framework: It would have been handy for our MONEY datatype to have the possibility to define,…
This is part 4 of a series related to extending MariaDB with a custom data type using the Type_handler framework. You can find the previous articles below: Overriding Existing Types In the previous examples, our MONEY data type inherits from…
In the previous article, we wrote, compiled, and tested our first custom data type for MariaDB using the Type_handler framework. But currently, aside from allowing the use of its new name (MONEY) and listing it in the metadata, our new…