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Original author(s) | AskMonty.org |
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Developer(s) | Monty Program Ab |
Stable release | MariaDB 10.0.12
/ June 16, 2014 |
Preview release | All
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Written in | C++ |
Platform | All |
Type | Database engine |
License | GNU GPLv2 |
Website | mariadb |
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]