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What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I built the type_hll plugin, which adds HyperLogLog sketches to MariaDB, and I use it here to answer that question.
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Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision
Last week was about PHP. This week, check your database.
On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known together as PHP2Shell. Exploit details leaked before the patch, attacks started within hours, and the only real fix was […]
MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026
InnoDB about 3x faster on in-memory workloads, the FOSDEM 2027 M-ecosystem devroom call for papers, parallel query execution, our first India meetup and 17 years of MariaDB Server. MariaDB Foundation…
What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I…
Multi-Node Unused Index Verification
Every MySQL schema that’s been around for a few years collects indexes nobody remembers adding. Some were for a report that was retired. Some came from an ORM migration. A…
Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision
Last week was about PHP. This week, check your database. On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619,…
From Cake Pops to Valkey Pong: Finding My Place in the Open Source Community
I’ll be the first to admit it. I’m not a technical guy. I am, however, observant and curious—two traits that play a major role in my efforts to learn and…
Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines
We loaded 990,000 OpenAI embeddings of 1,536 dimensions into six databases that index vectors themselves, built an HNSW index in each, and measured five things: time to a queryable index,…
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