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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 future deployment choices.
Auree’s platform uses a lightweight 2+1 architecture, consisting of two database nodes and a smaller witness node responsible for quorum.
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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 and commitments clearer and easier to inspect.
The central principle is simple: authority should be visible, earned and connected to responsibility.
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We are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.
Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. Its technology helps organisations move data across database systems and keep data fresh between operational systems, analytics platforms, and application environments.
For MariaDB users, this matters because data movement is often part of real-world database adoption. Organisations do not choose databases in isolation. They need practical ways to migrate, replicate, modernise, integrate, and operate across mixed environments. Wirekite supports MariaDB as both a source and target database, helping make MariaDB easier to include in broader data architectures.
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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.
ScalaHosting provides managed cloud VPS, web hosting and high-availability hosting services to customers around the world. Its platforms support MariaDB as a database option for websites, applications and online businesses, giving developers and organisations access to open-source database technology within professionally managed hosting environments.
Through its Gold sponsorship, ScalaHosting is investing in the independent, community-led development and long-term continuity of MariaDB Server.
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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. She had heard stories about Solomon’s wisdom and the prosperity of his kingdom, and she came to examine it for herself. The main methodological difference between us is that she did not send a Calendly link first.
After seeing the court, the people, the organisation and everything that had been built, she admitted that the reports had failed to capture its true scale:
“Not even half was told me.”
The story does not tell whether she arrived on a high horse.
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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® Power® and IBM Z®, reflecting a shared interest in ensuring that MariaDB Server remains available, well tested and relevant across a broad range of architectures and demanding production environments.
Open source across enterprise platforms
MariaDB Server is used in environments ranging from individual developer machines and cloud infrastructure to business-critical enterprise systems.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor.
Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. Its flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, helps organizations manage database availability, disaster recovery and distributed deployments across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
The company has worked with open-source database technologies for more than two decades and brings extensive experience from demanding production environments across SaaS, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce and other industries.
“Continuent has a long history in the MariaDB and wider open-source database ecosystem.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year.
Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. Both projects form part of a broader open-source ecosystem that enables businesses, public-sector organisations and individuals to build digital services without unnecessary dependence on proprietary platforms.
Over the past year, our collaboration has also developed through the Privacy-First Solution Stack, which brings together Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server in a practical open-source architecture for secure collaboration, password management and data storage.
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