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. …
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. …
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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(). …
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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. …
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