Magento normally uses InnoDB for orders, order items, invoices, and other transactional data. However, analytical reports have another workload. I wanted to check whether DuckDB can improve a real Magento report without replacing the operational database. … Continue reading \"Trying DuckDB for Magento Analytics: An Experiment with One Million Orders\" Trying DuckDB for Magento Analytics: An Experi…
The MariaDB Adoption Index is up 126% in a year. More people are downloading MariaDB, more people are contributing to it, and more projects are building on it than at any point since we started measuring. … Continue reading \"MariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing – Adoption Index 2026-09\" MariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing – Adoption In…
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has renewed its Diamond sponsorship for a fourth consecutive year. … Continue reading \"AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year\" AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year appeared first on MariaDB.org
PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules, originated in Solaris and became common place in all Linux, BSDs, and AIX, HP-UX and macOS. MariaDB has had PAM support as an option since MariaDB 5.2.10 becoming stable in 10.0.11. … Continue reading \"Rethinking PAM\" Rethinking PAM appeared first on MariaDB.org
This work started from a conversation with Monty Widenius at Meet Magento Czech in August. We discussed possible ways to improve the scalability of the InnoDB B+Tree, especially its insert path and page splits. … Continue reading \"From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits\" From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits appeared first on MariaDB.org
We want to know how you’re really using MariaDB — and databases in general. Not the marketing version or the one-off case study. The real story: what you’re building, how you are using it, what’s working, and what’s frustrating. … Continue reading \"Launching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026\" Launching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org
A few weeks ago, we asked a simple question: Which language would you use to write MariaDB plugins? The question related to MDEV-40189 (Support plugins written in various languages), an idea we introduced earlier this summer to lower the barrier to MariaDB plugin development by supporting languages other than C and C++. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Plugins Beyond C++: What the Community Told Us\"…
As a DBA, there are some surprises I enjoy. Discovering a useful feature is one of them. Discovering that an application behaves differently after a maintenance update is considerably further down the list. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821\" MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821 appeared first on MariaDB.org
August belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026\" MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org
MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam 2026! Join us for sessions on server plugins, protocol security and ecosystem building, hear independent MariaDB experiences, meet Percona\'s new General Manager for MariaDB, and visit the MariaDB booth for demos and discussions with our engineers. MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community appeared first on Mari…
MariaDB Server maintenance releases are here! On August 24, we released updates for our four currently maintained Long Term Support series: As usual, these maintenance releases include bug fixes, stability improvements, and ongoing work across MariaDB Server. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4 and 10.11 – Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases, and Goodbye 10.6\" MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8,…
After a long break, I will be taking over reporting on the contributions. FYI, the last one was done in Jan 2025. Just like last time, I’m going to start with a breakdown of all the organizations who have contributed to MariaDB Server during the above period. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026\" MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026 appeared first…
MariaDB Foundation is delighted to welcome Seravo as a Silver Sponsor, turning a long-standing relationship in the open-source ecosystem into formal support for the future of MariaDB. … Continue reading \"Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\" Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org
MariaDB already allows developers to add new Pluggable Data Types and scalar Plugin Functions. One missing piece has been Pluggable Aggregate Functions operating on PDTs. That matters for functionality such as HyperLogLog, where an extension needs to aggregate values into a custom statistical sketch while preserving its native SQL type. … Continue reading \"Extending MariaDB with Native Aggregate…
Overview While validating MariaDB RSS stability under stored procedure workloads, I ran into unexpected memory growth. The goal was straightforward: confirm that MariaDB was not leaking memory when running TPROC-C stored procedure workloads. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration\" MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt…
JSON support in MariaDB has improved significantly over the years. We have functions to create JSON documents, extract values, modify objects, inspect arrays, compare documents, and even transform JSON into relational rows using JSON_TABLE(). … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE Improvements\" MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE…
Auree is building a cloud-independent platform for deploying and operating highly available open source databases, including MariaDB, inside customers’ own cloud accounts. Its Bring Your Own Cloud model allows organisations to choose their cloud provider, region, infrastructure size, and security environment while Auree automates database provisioning, monitoring, backups, clustering, and failover…
Be it known: MariaDB Server now has a clearer, publicly documented governance framework covering technical roles, subsystem ownership, decision-making, response expectations and continuity. Open source begins with access to the code. … Continue reading \"Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model\" Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model appeared first on MariaDB.org
We are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation. Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. … Continue reading \"Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\" The post Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org.
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…