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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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. …
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++. …
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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. …
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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. …
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