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Global cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDB MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers. … Continue reading "ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation" The post ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

The Queen of Sheba did not travel lightly. She arrived in Jerusalem with difficult questions, a large caravan, camels carrying spices, and an impressive quantity of gold. … Continue reading "The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told”" The post The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told” appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor. IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® … Continue reading "IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation" The post IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

MariaDB and MySQL share history, tools, protocols and a large technical community. But compatibility does not mean identity—especially when reporting bugs. A MariaDB Connector/C issue submitted to the MySQL bug tracker offers a funny reminder to say the product’s actual name. The post Say the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.23.0 makes the operator a place you move to, not just a place you start. A new ClusterSync component clones a live source and follows its change streams, so leaving a hosted service is a short cutover rather than a long outage. Alongside it, this release adds semantic vector search and … Continued The post Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.23.0: ClusterSync Migration, Vector Search, and PVC Snapshot Backups appeared first on Percona…. Read more

On December 1, 2025, MariaDB announced that MySQL Galera Cluster will reach end of life on September 30, 2026. After that date, the MySQL build of Galera stops receiving maintenance and binary releases, and all new clustering features land only in MariaDB Galera Cluster. MariaDB’s recommended path is an in-place migration onto their own server. … Continued The post How to Migrate from MySQL Galera Cluster to Percona XtraDB Cluster appeared first on Percona…. Read more

In my previous post, I introduced the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack. Nextcloud for collaboration, Passbolt for passwords and secrets, and MariaDB Server for the data. … Continue reading "Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform" The post Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Database migrations are rarely only about replacing one database server with another. In real production systems, especially in fintech, a migration is usually about reducing risk, keeping the application online, improving scalability, and giving teams more room to evolve the architecture without freezing product development. … Continue reading "From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gradual Fintech Migration with 23% Lower TCO" The post From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gradual Fintech Migration with 23% Lower TCO appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Have you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it? You wanted to change: but accidentally wrote: One missing letter. That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses to start. … Continue reading "MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server" The post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

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What’s the impact of TDE on performance? People usually quickly throw together a few graphs with basic measurements and treat that as a complete answer, but the question is a bit more complex than that. In this blog post, I’ll try to explain it in a bit more detail: why showcasing a single graph isn’t good for anything other than marketing…. Read more

Sometimes, we see ClickHouse queries that should normally complete in milliseconds take several seconds to finish or worse, time out entirely. When that happens, there is a good chance that the schema is the real culprit. The problem is often not the query itself, nor is it a hardware bottleneck. Instead, it can stem from […] The post ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling appeared first on Severalnines…. Read more

On July 9–10, the two of us – Sandra (Engineering, Percona for MongoDB) and Radek (Product, Percona for MongoDB) – packed our backpacks and headed to Berlin for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe 2026 (WAD). The 11th edition of the congress gathered 15,000 developers and 500+ speakers for two intense days, and we came back with full notebooks, fresh ideas, and one very clear message from the industry…. Read more

You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days. You wrote a PR. You spent an hour on a call telling us what’s broken about a tool you use every day. None of that is small, and none of it should go unnoticed…. Read more

What is the MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator? The MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator makes it easier to run and manage MariaDB […]… Read more