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. …
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. …
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