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A proper comparison of the distinct committers to MariaDB and MySQL repositories since Q1 2025. The post The Power Of The Community! appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

For decades, financial institutions have relied on proprietary databases to power everything from customer transactions to real-time risk engines. But the pressures facing banks, fintechs, and payment providers have changed. Even minutes of downtime can trigger customer loss. 91% of enterprises report costs over $300,000 per hour, with 44% saying it can exceed $1 million. … Continued The post Why Modern Finance Runs on Open Source appeared first on Percona…. Read more

On paper, proprietary database licensing looks simple. You look at a predictable per-core licensing cost, the estimated infrastructure spend, and the support contract. But the actual cost of a proprietary database is not a line item. The predictability dissolves once workloads grow, new services are launched, or regulatory and uptime demands force you to scale … Continued The post What You’re Really Paying for With Proprietary Databases appeared first on Percona…. Read more

Have you ever written a query where the GROUP BY was easy, but the aggregate was the problem? You know how to group the rows.You know what result you want for each group.But none of the built-in aggregate functions really match your logic. … Continue reading "MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function" The post MariaDB Hidden Gem: Create Aggregate Function appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions recognize individuals and organizations that strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem through technical excellence, community leadership, open-source stewardship, ecosystem impact, and real-world adoption. … Continue reading "Celebrating the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions Nominees" The post Celebrating the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lions Champions Nominees appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

When I joined Pervasive PSQL, one of the first performance test cases I was introduced to was TPC-B. It was already implemented inside Pervasive PSQL and it quickly became one of the most important tools in my daily work. … Continue reading "MariaDB Foundation: Bringing TPC-B Back To Life" The post MariaDB Foundation: Bringing TPC-B Back To Life appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

MariaDB Community Server corrective releases are now available for the currently maintained long-term series. These releases address critical CVEs, and we strongly recommend that all users review the security advisories and upgrade as soon as possible. … Continue reading "MariaDB Community Server Corrective Releases" The post MariaDB Community Server Corrective Releases appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

New corrective maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.8.6-4, 11.4.10-8, and 10.6.25-22 are now available. Download Now Notable Release Updates […]… Read more

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other…. Read more

We have a new record average time to process a pull request: 21 days! Part of my job is following (and trying to improve of course) some key metrics about MariaDB Server pull request processing. … Continue reading "A New Pull Request Processing Time Record" The post A New Pull Request Processing Time Record appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

I’ll explain how I built the Postgres layer for semantic vector search on the Percona Community website: pgvector, chunks, two table modifications, the database schema, how the indexer populates Postgres, and what the SELECT statement looks like during a search…. Read more

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, the latest Long Term Support release of MariaDB Server. The first GA of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2. … Continue reading "MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released" The post MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Type “zero downtime database migration” into the site’s search bar and you’ll get articles and talks about database migration with minimal downtime, even if those words aren’t in the titles or content. This is semantic search on PostgreSQL and pgvector, without paid embedding APIs or a separate vector database. In this series I’ll cover how it works and why I chose this stack…. Read more

We are thrilled to announce that MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status. As our latest Long […]… Read more

The Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0 is here. This is the release that completes the hard fork of the operator from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator into a fully independent project, with a dedicated upstream.pgv2.percona.com API group for the inherited CRDs, an automatic CRD-rename rollout for existing 2.x installs on upgrade, and a public roadmap … Continued The post Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0: Hard Fork, OLM Scoping, Major Upgrades appeared first on Percona…. Read more