Databases

How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, and verify that it is running and has a safe initial configuration.

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How to Use Full-Text Search in PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Full-Text Search in PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we’ll use PostgreSQL to store data containing articles for a hypothetical news website, then learn how to query the database using FTS and select only the best matches. As the final step, we will explore the available types of indexes in PostgreSQL which can be used to significantly improve performance of the full-text search queries.

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How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Debian 10 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Debian 10 Servers

In this guide, you will configure an active-active MariaDB Galera cluster. For demonstration purposes, you will configure and test three Debian 10 Droplets that will act as nodes in the cluster. MariaDB is an open source relational database system that is fully compatible with the popular MySQL RDBMS system. Galera is a database clustering solution that enables you to set up multi-master clusters using synchronous replication.

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How To Use Stored Procedures in MySQL — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Stored Procedures in MySQL

MySQL supports the use of stored procedures, which group one or multiple SQL statements for reuse under a common name. Using stored procedures, you can create reusable routines for common tasks to be used across multiple applications, provide data validation, or deliver an additional layer of data access security. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what stored procedures are and how to create basic stored procedures that return data and use both input and output parameters.

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How To Install MySQL on CentOS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MySQL on CentOS

MySQL is an open-source database management system. CentOS prefers MariaDB by default, a fork of MySQL managed by the original MySQL developers and designed as a replacement for MySQL. Unless you have a specific use-case for MySQL, see the [How To Install MariaDB on CentOS](https://www.progressiverobot.com/how-to-install-mariadb-on-centos-7/) guide.

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