Efficient Ops
Oct 23, 2017 · Databases
How Tencent’s DBA Team Cut a 12‑Hour Schema Change to 0.04 seconds in MariaDB
The article recounts how Tencent Game DBA engineers contributed two core features—instant ADD COLUMN and large‑field compression—to MariaDB 10.3.2 Alpha, slashing a 12‑hour schema change to 0.04 seconds, earning public thanks from the MariaDB project and its founder Monty, and illustrating the impact of open‑source collaboration on high‑performance game databases.
Database performanceInstant Add ColumnMariaDB
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