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MariaDB Database v4.0

MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction

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…

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When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security

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

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MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties

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…

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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026

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

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Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor

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…

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MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF

In performance testing, numbers alone rarely tell the full story. A benchmark result without context is just a result floating in space disconnected from the intent, and the conditions that produced it. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF\" MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF appeared first on MariaDB.org

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MariaDB Database v4.0

MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release

MariaDB Foundation’s Performance Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release represents the biggest changes to the framework since its creation. This release reshapes how we organize, run, and report database workloads across MariaDB, MySQL, and now PostgreSQL. … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release\" MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TA…

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Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor

MariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor. Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers and organisations control over where and how they run their applications. … Continue reading \"Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\" Kamatera joins Mari…

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TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: the Tides Are Moving Fast

A few months ago, I wrote about my first experiments with TideSQL, the MariaDB storage engine powered by TidesDB. At that time, getting started meant building the TidesDB library, adding the TideSQL sources to the MariaDB source tree, compiling everything, installing the plugin and finally playing with: It worked, and I liked what I saw. … Continue reading \"TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: the Tides Are Mo…

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“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova

At Percona Live Amsterdam I caught up with Sveta Smirnova, a world-renowned MySQL expert, author of “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, and a frequent speaker at events from Oracle OpenWorld and FOSDEM to HighLoad. … Continue reading \"“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova\" “Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty…

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The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam

Last week I spent a few days in Amsterdam at Percona Live. It was the first Percona Live in Europe since before the pandemic, and you could feel it in the room: a slightly disbelieving happiness at simply being together again. … Continue reading \"The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam\" The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam appeared first on MariaD…

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MariaDB Database v13.0

MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable

MariaDB Server 13.0 is now Stable! The 13.0 series started its journey in March 2026 with the Preview. It then progressed through the Release Candidate phase and is now ready for general use as MariaDB’s latest Stable rolling release. … Continue reading \"MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable\" MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable appeared first on MariaDB.org

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Trying DuckDB for Magento Analytics: An Experiment with One Million Orders

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…

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MariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing – Adoption Index 2026-09

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…

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AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year

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

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Rethinking PAM

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

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From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits

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

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Launching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026

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

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MariaDB Plugins Beyond C++: What the Community Told Us

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\"…

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MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821

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

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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026

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

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MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community

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…

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MariaDB Database v12.3

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4 and 10.11 – Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases, and Goodbye 10.6

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,…

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MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026

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…

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Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation

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

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Extending MariaDB with Native Aggregate Plugins: Laying the Groundwork for HyperLogLog

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…

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MariaDB Database v6.0

MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration

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…

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MariaDB Database v13.1

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE Improvements

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…

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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor.

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…

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model

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