Author: Anna Widenius
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Open Source milestone – MariaDB’sEcosystem hub hits 200 solutions
New ‘App store of open source’ is one stop shop serving the fast-growing MariaDB community’s needs for applications, developer tools, cloud platforms and projects.
The MariaDB Foundation today announces the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub has exceeded 200 entries, just six months after launch.
The Hub is a curated, open directory of MariaDB Server approved products, services and open-source projects. The ecosystem spans cloud and hosting platforms, monitoring and observability, backup and recovery, security, migration, connectivity, DevOps, analytics, AI and application […]
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Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Frappe as a Silver Sponsor.
Frappe builds open-source software for running organisations, including ERPNext, Frappe HR and Frappe CRM. Its applications are built on Frappe Framework, where MariaDB is the default database. That makes MariaDB part of the infrastructure behind the work Frappe users do every day, from managing finances and inventory to serving customers.
“Frappe shows what open-source software can deliver when the entire stack is available for people to use, adapt and improve,” said Anna […]
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Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Elestio as a Silver Sponsor, supporting the open-source project behind its managed MariaDB offering.
Elestio provides managed MariaDB with automated backups, monitoring and updates, allowing users to choose their cloud provider, region and resources. Its support for the Foundation helps sustain MariaDB’s development and grow the ecosystem around it.
Making MariaDB easier to choose and run
Choosing a database also means deciding how to deploy, maintain and operate it. Managed services give teams a practical path to […]
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Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor.
Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers and organisations control over where and how they run their applications. That flexibility makes it a natural environment for open-source technologies such as MariaDB, which users can deploy, configure and scale according to their own technical and geographic requirements.
“MariaDB belongs wherever developers choose to build and run their applications,” […]
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AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has renewed its Diamond sponsorship for a fourth consecutive year.
AWS became the Foundation’s first Diamond sponsor in 2023, building on years of technical engagement with MariaDB Server and its community. Since then, the relationship has developed into a sustained collaboration supporting the openness, adoption, and long-term continuity of MariaDB Server.
AWS engineers contribute code and technical expertise to MariaDB Server, and ongoing dialogue between AWS and the Foundation […]
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Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is delighted to welcome Seravo as a Silver Sponsor, turning a long-standing relationship in the open-source ecosystem into formal support for the future of MariaDB.
Seravo is a Finland-based specialist in premium hosting and upkeep for WordPress and WooCommerce. Open source sits at the heart of its technology stack and its company culture, and MariaDB has been part of that story for many years.
MariaDB behind the WordPress ecosystem
For hosting providers, databases are not an abstract technology […]
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor.
Auree is building a cloud-independent platform for deploying and operating highly available open source databases, including MariaDB, inside customers’ own cloud accounts. Its Bring Your Own Cloud model allows organisations to choose their cloud provider, region, infrastructure size, and security environment while Auree automates database provisioning, monitoring, backups, clustering, and failover.
This approach addresses a growing concern among organisations adopting managed database services: how to gain the operational benefits of the cloud without surrendering control of their data, infrastructure, or […]
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model
Be it known: MariaDB Server now has a clearer, publicly documented governance framework covering technical roles, subsystem ownership, decision-making, response expectations and continuity.
Open source begins with access to the code. Yet for infrastructure expected to remain dependable for many years, openness must also extend to how responsibility is assigned, how decisions are made, and what happens when people disagree or move on.
The framework formalises much of how the project has long worked, while making its responsibilities, decision paths […]