Behind every successful Drupal website, there exists a well tuned database. It is no secret that a default configured MySQL will not get you far in the long term, hence the art of performance tuning MySQL for Drupal at scale.

MariaDB is a backwards compatible, drop-in replacement to MySQL, that has gained much momentum in recent times, and tends to be the default in many distributions of choice now. The 10.0 release is new, and amongst its improvements include multiple replication features, so you also have a highly available Drupal-powered site. With a little bit of work, Drupal can also work with other storage engines like TokuDB to improve INSERT performance or to compress archive data. Combine Drupal roles with SQL ROLES.

Learn how to take advantage of the new features in MariaDB, to get Drupal to scale. The talk will also touch on new developments around MariaDB Galera Cluster and how that can be used for read/write scaling of Drupal as it provides geographic synchronous replication.

Case studies of sites scaling with MariaDB will also be included.

This is a revision of the popular talk in 2013, with a brand new release of MariaDB to make things better for users!