MariaDB Server: the innovative open source database

“I Am Not Building Cadillacs Anymore”

The Ford–Cadillac Parable
In 1902, Henry Ford’s second car company was taken over by investors and renamed Cadillac. The designs were his. The engineering was his. …

MariaDB Foundation Welcomes Rumahweb as a Silver Sponsor

We are thrilled to announce that Rumahweb, one of Indonesia’s most trusted and long-standing web hosting providers, has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor. …

Per-table unique FOREIGN KEY constraint names – new feature in MariaDB 12.1

For historical reasons, the handling of FOREIGN KEY constraints in MariaDB Server is somewhat peculiar. Unlike CHECK constraints, which are being enforced at the query execution layer for all tables, FOREIGN KEY constraint definitions will simply be ignored unless the underlying storage engine supports them. …

Make JSON DEPTH unlimited – new feature in MariaDB 12.1

At some point, nearly every developer encounters a common challenge: working with deeply nested JSON only to run into an arbitrary depth limit imposed by the database. …

Bringing Oracle’s Associative Arrays to MariaDB

One of the standout features of Oracle PL/SQL is the associative array — a versatile and efficient in-memory data structure that developers rely on for fast temporary lookups, streamlined batch processing, and dynamic report generation. …