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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++. …

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. …

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. …

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.