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Brian DeMilia
Brian DeMilia

Reputation: 13248

MariaDB Columnstore 1.4 on MariaDB Community Server 10.5 Alpha

Per MariaDB's website, in the Columnstore section (https://mariadb.com/downloads/#mariadb_platform-mariadb_columnstore):

MariaDB ColumnStore 1.4 is now part of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4, and will be part of the next MariaDB Community Server 10.5 alpha release.

However, the .tar for the MariaDB Community Server 10.5 alpha (recently released) does not contain any .deb files containing the text "columnstore" (I would expect to see something along the lines of "MariaDB-columnstore-platform" and "MariaDB-columnstore-engine" based on the only documentation I can find for Columnstore 1.4, which is written not for the community version but for Enterprise: https://mariadb.com/docs/deploy/col14/). I cannot find any equivalent documentation pertaining to Columnstore 1.4 in MariaDB Community 10.5 alpha, even though MariaDB's website states that Columnstore 1.4 was released in that version, and several articles published on other websites reference it as being included in the release as well.

Has anyone used Columnstore 1.4 on MariaDB Community 10.5 alpha? Maybe Columnsotre's inclusion in 10.5 alpha was simply cancelled and references of its inclusion were never deleted throughout the website? If someone has gotten it working, can you outline how?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 322

Answers (1)

Rick James
Rick James

Reputation: 142503

But 10.5 is not "released" yet. The release cycle is to put out 10.x.0, which likely to be riddled with issues. Then 10.x.1, which cleans up some of the worst problems. Etc. Eventually, 10.x.y is issued as a "Release candidate". The hardy "early adopters" should be trying this out, but not putting it in production. Finally, about 10.x.10, they will issue a "GA" (Generally available) version. This has all the features for 10.x included and all show-stopper bugs dealt with.

Note that the page for 10.5 is calling 10.5.1 "beta"; it is not yet RC or GA. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/what-is-mariadb-105/

It is not uncommon for a feature to not make it into the ".0" version. But it is likely to be in before the RC release. I guess that they tried to put Columnstore into .0, but something really bad happened, so they backed it out.

Perhaps someone in MariaDB will spot this Q&A and give you a better answer.

Patience.

Upvotes: 0

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