Announcing support for MariaDB Enterprise Server on IBM Power
We’re thrilled to announce that IBM® and MariaDB have joined forces to introduce support for MariaDB Enterprise Server on IBM Power® architecture (ppc64le). Clients leveraging MariaDB Enterprise Server on IBM Power benefit from enterprise reliability, stability, long-term support, and greater operational efficiency when managing large database deployments for business- and mission-critical applications.
Solution
MariaDB Enterprise Server runs anywhere – public, private, and hybrid cloud. Its purpose-built storage engine architecture supports transactional, analytical, and mixed workloads for relational and JSON data models. MariaDB MaxScale, the world-class database proxy created by MariaDB, enables seamless automatic failover, zero-downtime rolling upgrades, and easy cluster scale-out. IBM Power is known for its scalability and performance in handling the most demanding workloads. It provides superior virtualization and management features for flexibility and security with better isolation and an integrated stack. Clients choosing MariaDB Enterprise Server on Power require increased performance, reliability, security at the server level, and scalability for their application and database experience.
MariaDB Enterprise Server on Power is ideal for organizations looking to achieve:
- Scalability: Scale-out databases and data warehouses with parallel query and scale-out reads with replication or multi-writer clustering.
- High availability: Maintain continuous availability and hide failures from applications using zero-interruption failover features such as transaction replay.
- Disaster recovery: Recover from accidental or malicious data loss with MariaDB Point in Time Recovery, and be prepared for outages by taking online, non-blocking backups (full and incremental).
- Security: Prevent data breaches and protect sensitive/personal information with full end-to-end encryption, data masking, and database firewall (MariaDB MaxScale).
- Oracle Database compatibility: Take advantage of Oracle Database and PL/SQL compatible data types, sequences, triggers, and stored procedures to simplify migration.
- JSON + relational data: Enjoy greater schema flexibility and faster development with hybrid relational and JSON data models, storing data as JSON and querying it with a complete set of JSON functions.
Performance
Running MariaDB Enterprise Server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers benefit from up to 4.22x the performance on Power10 vs. Intel x86-based systems. The key advantages of the MariaDB Enterprise Server running on IBM Power servers include up to 900,000 transactions per second, enabling high-performance workloads on fewer cores than other platforms, and reducing software and support costs.
The tested performance of IBM Power10 indicates that Power is a capable and high-performing system well-suited for MariaDB workloads and customers' growing data-intensive demands.
For more detailed data or to learn how the performance benchmark was conducted, review the MariaDB Enterprise on Linux on Power Performance Report.
Partner spotlight
“MariaDB has always strived to provide customers with the best overall experience for application performance and scalability. By working closely with IBM and certifying MariaDB Enterprise Server to run on IBM Power, customers can run their demanding, data-intensive applications at scale with increased performance and stability of an enterprise-grade, relational, open source database on IBM Power.”
Jim Sears, VP of Global Alliances, MariaDB
“Running MariaDB Enterprise Server on IBM Power offers a range of benefits. Organizations leveraging the MariaDB and MaxScale database proxy on IBM Power architecture achieve a reliable and secure database solution optimized for performance and scalability.”
Gina King, Director of ISV Ecosystem & Alliances, IBM
Get started
We look forward to working with clients and business partners to realize their modernization objectives with MariaDB on IBM Power. Ready to get started today? Contact an IBM rep for details.
Existing MariaDB customers can refer to the deployment instructions.
Additional resources
Learn more about modernizing with MariaDB on IBM Power