Aria (storage engine)

Aria
Original author(s)AskMonty.org
Developer(s)Monty Program Ab
Stable release
MariaDB 10.0.12 / June 16, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-06-16)
Preview release
All
Written inC++
PlatformAll
TypeDatabase engine
LicenseGNU GPLv2
Websitemariadb.com/kb/en/aria-storage-engine/

Aria is a storage engine for the MariaDB and MySQL relational database management systems. Its goal is to make a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. It is not transactional.

Aria has been in development since 2007 and was first announced by Michael "Monty" Widenius on his blog.[1] Aria is used for internal temporary tables in MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database led by Widenius. Aria is not shipped with MySQL or Percona Server.

Aria was initially named "Maria", as a reference to Monty's youngest child.[2] It was renamed Aria in 2010 to avoid confusion with the main database it is developed for, MariaDB.[3] Chris Tooley, who won a contest to suggest the name, wrote, "Aria is Maria without the 'M'; also it is a pleasant musical term."[4]

  1. ^ Aria – AskMonty KnowledgeBase Archived May 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Aria FAQ - AskMonty KnowledgeBase". Archived from the original on 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  3. ^ "Rename Maria". askmonty.org. Archived from the original on 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  4. ^ "Rename Maria Contest Winner!". GNOME Blogs. Archived from the original on 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2018-01-21.