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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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Introduction
Over the past weeks, questions around Galera, high availability, and continuity have generated understandable concern within parts of the MariaDB community.
Clarity matters in moments like this.That is also why this response was unfortunately not immediate. It was important to understand the full picture and ensure that what we communicate reflects the actual state of responsibilities and decisions.
This post explains where things stand today, what has changed, and how the MariaDB Foundation views its role going forward. Directly. Transparently. With responsibility.
Galera and the community: acknowledging the reality
High availability has always mattered.
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We’re excited to welcome TidesDB as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
TidesDB’s sponsorship directly supports our mission to strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem and accelerate innovation through open, community-driven collaboration. Their commitment reflects a shared belief that open source databases thrive when strong technology and strong communities grow together.
Beyond sponsorship, TidesDB is contributing meaningful technology to the ecosystem through a new pluggable storage engine for MariaDB, designed for modern hardware. This integration expands the range of workloads MariaDB can serve while giving users and developers more choice, performance options, and flexibility.
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We are delighted to announce that Epsio (https://www.epsio.io/) has joined the MariaDB Foundation as an official silver sponsor.
Epsio’s commitment to innovation and open technology aligns closely with the mission of the MariaDB Foundation: to support and advance the MariaDB ecosystem and strengthen the long-term viability of MariaDB as a reliable, open source database platform. Their sponsorship will help fuel community initiatives, foster collaboration, and expand opportunities for developers and organizations around the world.
“We are excited to partner with Epsio,” said Anna, CEO at the MariaDB Foundation. “Their support is a meaningful contribution to our work and reflects shared values in open source, performance, and community empowerment.”
Epsio’s sponsorship will directly support the Foundation’s core activities, including community programs, developer engagement, and educational initiatives that drive the growth and sustainability of MariaDB globally.
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We are pleased to welcome Sylvain Arbaudie as a sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
Sylvain Arbaudie is an independent consultant with extensive experience helping organisations design reliable, scalable data infrastructures. Having worked primarily with commercial systems early in his career, Sylvain has witnessed how open source has matured into a powerful foundation for innovation, technological sovereignty, and long-term freedom—often surpassing proprietary alternatives in robustness and adaptability.
Among relational databases he has followed—MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB—Sylvain sees MariaDB as standing apart through its clarity of design, integrated ecosystem, and enterprise-grade reliability. These qualities make it a strong choice for organisations of all sizes, from individual founders to global enterprises.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome HammerDB as a Silver Sponsor.
HammerDB is the industry-standard open-source database benchmark, widely used across the database, cloud, and hardware ecosystem to evaluate mission-critical performance, scalability, and real-world workload behaviour. Its transparent and reproducible workloads are trusted by practitioners and vendors alike when validating performance claims, comparing configurations, and understanding database behaviour under load.
HammerDB is developed independently and hosted by the TPC Council as part of the TPC-OSS program, providing a neutral and credible reference point for performance evaluation.
HammerDB has long supported MariaDB and is frequently used by the community to test new releases, investigate performance regressions, and build confidence in production deployments.
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