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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 […]
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Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution
MariaDB Server has executed every query on a single thread since the beginning. That is changing. In the first episode of Inner Join, our new video series with the engineers of the MariaDB core team, I sat down with Oleg Smirnov of the Optimizer team to talk about parallel query […]
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Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector
Earlier this month we wrote that Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Mohamed Touhami Rhaima, one of the community contributors who made that happen, has now written a tutorial on how to use it, and recorded a video version.
Why MariaDB Vector in Laravel
With Laravel 13 and MariaDB […]
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,…
Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0: autopilot tuning, zero-data-loss async failover, encrypted PITR
Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0 is out. This release moves three things forward for teams running MySQL on Kubernetes: the operator now tunes MySQL for you based on the…
Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution
MariaDB Server has executed every query on a single thread since the beginning. That is changing. In the first episode of Inner Join, our new video series with the engineers…
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