Scalability improvements in MariaDB's InnoDB engine – Marko Mäkelä – MariaDB Server Fest 2020

A database server must provide Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable (ACID) transactions to applications. The necessary locking can become a contention point, even after painstaking efforts to use shards, caches and replicas in the deployment.

This presentation will cover some recent and ongoing efforts to improve the scalability and durability of the InnoDB storage engine in MariaDB Server, and to speed up hot backup and crash recovery.