What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with MariaDB, covers installing MariaDB on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS along with making backups, enabling common plugins, and other common tasks.

Chapter 2, Diving Deep into MariaDB, covers importing data, customizing the output of queries, migrating the data, and other topics.

Chapter 3, Optimizing and Tuning MariaDB, covers various configuration and optimization tasks as well as creating and removing indexes, JOINs, and other topics.

Chapter 4, The TokuDB Storage Engine, speaks about the alternative storage engine including how to enable it, and how to use and configure it.

Chapter 5, The CONNECT Storage Engine, explores the CONNECT storage engine including how to enable and configure it, and how to use it to connect to several different filetypes.

Chapter 6, Replication in MariaDB, includes recipes on global transaction IDs, multisource replication, and the binary log.

Chapter 7, Replication with MariaDB Galera Cluster, includes recipes that cover how to install and use this new clustering solution.

Chapter 8, Performance and Usage Statistics, covers using MariaDB's extended statistics, the audit plugin, and the performance schema.

Chapter 9, Searching Data Using Sphinx, covers how to install and use this useful full-text database indexer and search engine.

Chapter 10, Exploring Dynamic and Virtual Columns in MariaDB, is all about the built-in NoSQL features of MariaDB including dynamic and virtual columns features in MariaDB.

Chapter 11, NoSQL with HandlerSocket, is a chapter devoted to the NoSQL HandlerSocket feature and how to use it with various languages.

Chapter 12, NoSQL with the Cassandra Storage Engine, contains several recipes covering the installation and usage of the Cassandra storage engine.

Chapter 13, MariaDB Security, contains several recipes relating to securing MariaDB.