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. …
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. …
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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. …
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. …
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. …
By Percona, 2026-09-17
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