Daniël van Eeden

The success of open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB has created an ecosystem of derivatives claiming "drop-in compatibility." But as the distance between upstream and these derivatives grows, user confusion and brand dilution can follow. To address this, we explore the challenge of compatibility with de facto standards from two distinct angles: a governance perspective on…

This session will focus on the open-source distributed SQL databases TiDB and YugabyteDB. We will explore their building blocks to understand how they function, highlighting their similarities and architectural differences.

This walkthrough gives you an idea about how the network protocol that MySQL uses functions. Authentication: mysql_native_password , caching_sha2_password and more Secure connections with TLS Queries, Resultsets and Prepared statements Compression with zlib and zstd Connection attributes Replication This is based on work I have done on the MySQL protocol dissector in Wireshark