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  • 1.  Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Nov 06, 2017 03:00 PM

    Hi all,

     

    Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on CA's roadmap?

     

    Thanks,

    -Jaime



  • 2.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?
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    Posted Nov 06, 2017 06:09 PM

    jdjsolano, I will add a +1 vote to support MariaDB for the API Portal as we currently don't have it on the roadmap. I am the Product Manager for the API Portal. Please ping me if you want to chat about this or other features, my email is guillermo.tellez@ca.com



  • 3.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Nov 06, 2017 07:37 PM

    Hi jdjsolano, support for MariaDB is currently under consideration for the Gateway, and is on the backlog, however it is not currently planned into a specific Gateway release.  We are currently investigating the feasibility of supporting different databases, or even different ways of storing data, for future releases of the Gateway.

     

    Is there a specific driver for MariaDB support for your environment?

     

    Thanks,

    Aaron



  • 4.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Dec 04, 2017 06:24 PM

    Hi fliaa01, gtellez, I would like to register our support for MariaDB as a supported database across the API Management suite.  We see it as a cost effective database solution, with AWS support, for low to medium throughput environments.  Also, I guess given its heritage, it's not too much of a stretch from MySQL.  



  • 5.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Jun 14, 2018 03:18 PM

    Hi fliaa01

    MariaDB is a standard in our environment, we would like to deploy gateway and portal without having too many different variant of the Monty Widenius db's.



  • 6.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Dec 02, 2018 03:11 AM

    Hi

     

    CentOS 7 prefers MariaDB, that is a fork of MySQL managed by the original MySQL developers and designed as a replacement for MySQL. If you run yum install mysql on CentOS 7, it is MariaDB that is installed rather than MySQL. 

     

    If you're wondering about MySQL vs. MariaDB, MariaDB will generally work seamlessly in place of MySQL, so unless thereis a specific use-case for using MySQL, it will be good to support also MariaDB.

     

    best regards, Roberto



  • 7.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Dec 05, 2018 04:48 AM

    Currently running 9.3CR03 under MariaDB since 2017 on one of our test system.

    Our OpenShift deployment 9.4 API Gateway in container uses a 3 nodes MariaDB Galera cluster. Works like a charm.

    Added "mariadb-java-client-2.3.0.jar" as Driver for external database usage also as mandatory for some functions/procedures handling.

    Should be definitely supported, as some other reported, MariaDB comes as a standard on 'modern' CentOS/RHEL systems.



  • 8.  Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Mar 18, 2019 04:27 PM

    This should be officially supported. Galera has been proven as a very stable solution.



  • 9.  RE: Re: Is supporting MariaDB as Gateway and Portal databases on the roadmap?

    Posted Sep 13, 2019 04:10 AM
    Hi,

    Now september 2019, RHEL only supporting MariaDB out of the box,
    Zero problem since 05/2018 so far using our 36 software appliances either on RHEL or OpenShift based using API Gateway images from dockerhub.
    Using galera clustering, and MariaDB releases 10.1 and 10.4

    Any news regarding official support for mariadb ?

    Hint: mariadb driver cause some problems with Gateway if declaring both mysql & mariadb driver in classpath. have to stick to mysql driver only as for now.
    See: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/about-mariadb-connector-j
    and Support case 1280335