When deploying MariaDB in the cloud, controlling the infrastructure can be as important as controlling the database itself. Plenty of cloud providers offer their own approaches to virtual machines, networking, storage, and managed services. One of them is Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider that recently joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor. Kamatera […] Deploying MariaDB…
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome luroConnect as a Silver Sponsor, bringing practical experience in running MariaDB for Magento and Adobe Commerce merchants to our sponsor community. luroConnect provides managed cloud hosting for eCommerce, with 24/7 application-aware support, deployed into customers’ own AWS or GCP accounts. Its team runs MariaDB in production for eCommerce stores […] luro…
Developing plugins is one of the ways we really encourage to extend MariaDB Server’s capabilities. However, understanding the available APIs has often required developers to explore header files, source code, and existing plugin implementations.To make this easier, we now have a new, Doxygen-generated MariaDB Server Plugin API reference, available directly in the MariaDB documentation.If you’ve [……
InnoDB about 3x faster on in-memory workloads, the FOSDEM 2027 M-ecosystem devroom call for papers, parallel query execution, our first India meetup and 17 years of MariaDB Server. MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I built the type_hll plugin, which adds HyperLogLog sketches to MariaDB, and I use it here to answer that question. The answer is mostly yes. One […] What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case appeared first…
Last week was about PHP. This week, check your database. On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known together as PHP2Shell. Exploit details leaked before the patch, attacks started within hours, and the only real fix was to upgrade PHP or shut […] Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is…
MariaDB Server has executed every query on a single thread since the beginning. That is changing. In the first episode of Inner Join, our new video series with the engineers of the MariaDB core team, I sat down with Oleg Smirnov of the Optimizer team to talk about parallel query execution: why it took this […] Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution appeared first on MariaDB.org
Earlier this month we wrote that Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Mohamed Touhami Rhaima, one of the community contributors who made that happen, has now written a tutorial on how to use it, and recorded a video version. Why MariaDB Vector in Laravel With Laravel 13 and MariaDB 11.7 or later, you can […] Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector appeared first…
Publishing on behalf of Alessandro Vetere. Conclusions first: InnoDB in-memory workloads started paying for LRU management in 10.5, a performance regression, and I think the reason is that a clock, which was meant to say “eviction has started”, began ticking much earlier. A minimal fix would bring back the old meaning of the clock. The […] How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory…
One ecosystem, many projects, shared challenges. Join us in Brussels on Sunday, January 31, 2027, for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM! Building on the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, this new chapter expands its scope and ambition, bringing together developers and contributors from across the open-source database ecosystem to share knowledge, tackle […] FOSDEM 2027: Bringing t…
Jonathan Miller has spent 27 years in database performance testing. He talks about TAF, the open source Test Automation Framework that benchmarks MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL side by side, configuration provenance, and how to prove your patch made MariaDB faster. The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World appeared first on MariaDB.org
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Atarim as a Silver sponsor, strengthening the connection between MariaDB and the agencies and hosting providers shaping the web. Atarim is an AI web agency that plugs into existing web agencies and does the client work. Agencies point it at the sites they look after, and it designs, writes, […] Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor appeared fi…
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Amazic as a Silver Sponsor, adding a new supporter with strong connections across the software ecosystem. Amazic connects innovative software vendors with partners, developers and organisations looking to adopt modern technologies. Combining software distribution with technical enablement, training, content and community-focused events, Amazic helps bridge…
TidesDB now exists inside MariaDB as a pluggable storage engine. With the TideSQL plugin available, anyone can load TidesDB into a MariaDB server and begin experimenting with it. But having a plugin is only the first step — you still need a practical, reproducible way to run real workloads against it, that’s where TAF comes […] MariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with TAF appeared fi…
The first half of October belonged to the ecosystem. The MariaDB Ecosystem Hub passed 200 entries six months after launch, Laravel 13 gained native MariaDB Vector support through community contributors, and Frappe and Solanica joined the Foundation as Silver Sponsors. The Foundation’s testing framework learned PostgreSQL, reproduced a regression reported by Mark Callaghan and confirmed […] MariaDB…
We are pleased to welcome Solanica, the company driving the development of OpenEverest, as a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor. OpenEverest is an open-source platform for deploying and managing databases on Kubernetes. Its recently added MariaDB support gives developers and platform teams another way to bring MariaDB into their infrastructure, with deployment, high availability, backups and […] So…
Thanks to Mark Callaghan for filing MDEV‑37992. This regression only appears under specific LRU and buffer‑pool conditions, and requires a memory‑resident workload to expose. Using TAF, I reproduced the issue across 11.8, 12.3, and 13.1 using both parent commits and patched commits from MDEV‑33966. The fix restores expected throughput in all branches. The workload used […] MariaDB Foundation: Repr…
I’m always interested to see how MariaDB Vector is being used in real applications, beyond the usual demos and simple similarity-search examples. In this guest post, the team behind Bagisto takes a very practical look at semantic search for e-commerce using MariaDB Vector. What I particularly like is that they don’t stop at showing it […] Bagisto MariaDB Vector Semantic Search appeared first on Ma…
Open source runs on people. Not only the engineers who commit code, but everyone who builds tools, answers questions, writes tutorials and shows up when help is needed. Slava Rozhnev, creator of SQLtest.online, is one of those people for MariaDB. He has been creating SQL quizzes with the MariaDB Foundation for a while now, and […] Community Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online appeared firs…
Performance engineering inside a database project is usually private. Teams run internal workloads, investigate changes, fix issues, and move on. The knowledge stays inside the company, and the outside world only sees a benchmark graph or a release note. … Continue reading \"Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB\" Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library…
New ‘App store of open source’ is one stop shop serving the fast-growing MariaDB community’s needs for applications, developer tools, cloud platforms and projects. The MariaDB Foundation today announces the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub has exceeded 200 entries, just six months after launch. … Continue reading \"Open Source milestone – MariaDB’sEcosystem hub hits 200 solutions\" Open Source milesto…
If your Laravel application runs on MariaDB, you can add semantic search to it without a second database, an external vector service or an extra package. … Continue reading \"Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively\" Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively appeared first on MariaDB.org
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Frappe as a Silver Sponsor. Frappe builds open-source software for running organisations, including ERPNext, Frappe HR and Frappe CRM. Its applications are built on Frappe Framework, where MariaDB is the default database. … Continue reading \"Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\" Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on Maria…
The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework. TAF provides the structure — … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF).\" MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF). appeared fi…
I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way. … Continue reading \"Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path\" Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rol…
TAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file. This file captures exactly what the run used — … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction\" MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The…
You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. … Continue reading \"When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security\" When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security appeared first on MariaDB.org
TAF: One File to Rule Them All In a one‑on‑one review of TAF with Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, he looked at me and said: “I want everything in one user file.” … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties\" MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties appeared first on Mar…
September showed what an extensible MariaDB looks like in practice. A Magento report ran 63 times faster once its tables moved to the DuckDB storage engine, which now ships with MariaDB 13.0, Stable since 17 September. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026\" MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Elestio as a Silver Sponsor, supporting the open-source project behind its managed MariaDB offering. Elestio provides managed MariaDB with automated backups, monitoring and updates, allowing users to choose their cloud provider, region and resources. … Continue reading \"Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\" Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver…