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We are delighted to announce that Virtuozzo has renewed its sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation.
Virtuozzo has been a long-standing supporter of open infrastructure, service providers, and cloud platforms, and we are very pleased to continue strengthening our collaboration.
At MariaDB Foundation, sponsorship is not only about financial support. It is also about building useful, practical ecosystem work around MariaDB Server together with organizations that care about open technology, reliable infrastructure, and long-term user choice.
With Virtuozzo, we see strong alignment around open cloud infrastructure, database performance, operational reliability, and practical deployment models for service providers, SaaS platforms, and enterprise environments.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of our first MariaDB Server Solution Stack in the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub:
Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt, and MariaDB Server
This stack brings together three open-source technologies with a shared purpose: helping organizations build collaboration infrastructure around privacy, control, and long-term digital sovereignty.
The stack combines:
- Nextcloud for file sharing, synchronization, and collaboration
- Passbolt for password, credential, and secrets management
- MariaDB Server as the open-source relational database layer at the core
Together, they form a practical architecture for organizations that want to keep collaboration data, credentials, and structured data under their own control.
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Over the past month, one question has been coming up with increasing frequency:
What is the MySQL / MariaDB ecosystem?
In most discussions, the answer tends to focus on contributors to the source code: engineers, committers, and core developers shaping the database itself. That perspective is both valid and essential.
But it is only part of the picture.
Over the past few months, we have been looking at the ecosystem from a different angle:
What is being built around MariaDB?
Where is it being used?
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Kurt Daniel, five-time CEO and current CEO of Virtuozzo, to its Board—bringing in a perspective shaped at the very heart of the database industry.
Kurt’s career spans leadership roles at MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server, where he helped drive both strategy and market expansion at scale. At MongoDB, he was part of the journey that turned an emerging open source project into a category-defining company. At Microsoft, he built and led a product management team for a database portfolio generating over $1.5 billion in revenue.
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We are pleased to welcome Datography as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
Datography focuses on helping organizations understand, map, and manage complex data environments. As data infrastructures grow increasingly distributed across platforms, services, and geographies, having clear visibility into how data flows and where it resides becomes critical for governance, security, and operational efficiency.
This aligns closely with the MariaDB Foundation’s mission to support the adoption of open, transparent, and reliable data infrastructure.
Why This Matters
Modern organizations rarely operate a single database in isolation. Instead, they manage diverse data estates spanning multiple technologies, environments, and jurisdictions.
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We are pleased to welcome DBaasNow as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
As the MariaDB ecosystem continues to expand across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, the need for consistent, reliable, and scalable database operations has never been more important. DBaasNow brings a strong focus to this space with its database operations control plane, designed to standardize and automate database lifecycle management across diverse infrastructures.
Simplifying Operations Across Mixed Database Environments
Many organizations today operate MariaDB alongside other database technologies. Managing these environments efficiently is often challenging, particularly in governance, automation, and operational consistency.
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It’s easy to be a queen. Why? Because you can always count on your true selfless friends. I learned this already as a young princess. Nothing brightens a ball quite like a comment from one of your most trusted girlfriends:
- “Oh I love how you applied foundation — it’s not particularly aging, and it almost covers your zests.”
- “You are SO brave to wear this dress — I would have worried it makes me look… well… a bit much.”
It’s beautiful. It’s pure. It’s a sign of true friendship and it has nothing to do with the fact that this girlfriend is interested in the same prince
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In the royal court of Naboo, Queen Amidala received delegations from many worlds.
Some arrived as long-standing allies. Others were travelers whose routes simply crossed the planet’s orbit. Engineers, merchants, explorers, and diplomats all brought something different to the court. Each had their own craft, their own technology, their own perspective. Together they formed a network of relationships that allowed the system to flourish.
Healthy ecosystems often grow this way. Not by decree, but by connection.
Modern data platforms are much the same.
MariaDB sits at the center of a wide and diverse landscape of tools, services, and platforms used by developers and organizations around the world.
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