A production bottleneck at Headout led to a new MariaDB Server improvement. This is the story of how engineers, maintainers and AI-assisted development turned a real-world problem into an upstream open-source contribution. The post From a Production Problem to MariaDB: Headout’s Open-Source Contribution Journey appeared first on MariaDB.org.
Adobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default and recommended database platform. The post Adobe Commerce Chooses MariaDB as Its Default Database Platform appeared first on MariaDB.org.
Global cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDB MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers. … Continue reading \"ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\" The po…
The Queen of Sheba did not travel lightly. She arrived in Jerusalem with difficult questions, a large caravan, camels carrying spices, and an impressive quantity of gold. … Continue reading \"The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told”\" The post The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told” appeared first on MariaDB.org.
We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor. IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® … Continue reading \"IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\" The post IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB and MySQL share history, tools, protocols and a large technical community. But compatibility does not mean identity—especially when reporting bugs. A MariaDB Connector/C issue submitted to the MySQL bug tracker offers a funny reminder to say the product’s actual name. The post Say the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share appeared first on MariaDB.org.
In my previous post, I introduced the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack. Nextcloud for collaboration, Passbolt for passwords and secrets, and MariaDB Server for the data. … Continue reading \"Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform\" The post Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform appeared first on MariaDB.org.
Database migrations are rarely only about replacing one database server with another. In real production systems, especially in fintech, a migration is usually about reducing risk, keeping the application online, improving scalability, and giving teams more room to evolve the architecture without freezing product development. … Continue reading \"From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gradual Fintech…
Have you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it? You wanted to change: but accidentally wrote: One missing letter. That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses to start. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server\" The post MariaDB 13.1…
When people hear “online schema change” in the MySQL and MariaDB world, many immediately think about pt-online-schema-change. And for good reasons: for years, changing a large table in production was one of those tasks that could ruin your day. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc\" The post MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc appeared fi…
Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities. Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine\" The post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in…
Interview with Federico Razzoli, nominated in the Community Leadership category. The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli\" The post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominee…
TAF 3.0 introduces the new TAF Results Backend, a structured results database and parser pipeline that delivers fully automated performance change detection. … Continue reading \"TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection\" The post TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection appeared first on MariaDB.org.
During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions\" The post MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things. Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants\" The post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor. Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. … Continue reading \"Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\" The post Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more. … Continue reading \"Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages\" The post Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Langu…
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year. Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. … Continue reading \"Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation\" The post Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation appeared…
The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh\" The post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh appeared first on MariaDB.org.
I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.” Good. But then you look a bit closer. Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server\" The post MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem. … Continue reading \"Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation\" The post Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org.
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor. Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. … Continue reading \"Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor\" The post Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor appea…
We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies!\" The post MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodi…
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 will be a rolling release. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 preview available\" The post MariaDB 13.1 preview available appeared first on MariaDB.org.
Tracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history. … Continue reading \"Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis\" The post Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis appeared first on MariaDB.org.
laravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and his insights about picking an embedding model. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model\" The post MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model appeared…
MariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th\" The post MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th appeared first on MariaDB.org.
Interview with Sylvain Arbaudie, nominated in the Technical Excellence category. The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie\" The post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominee…