Author: Anna Widenius
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Hetzner Becomes Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation: Powering Our Build Infrastructure

We are delighted to welcome Hetzner as a Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Hetzner’s exceptional commitment to supporting our infrastructure has a direct and strategic impact on our operations. In particular, their sponsorship enables us to maintain and expand our Buildbot system — the backbone of testing and verifying MariaDB Server across platforms, architectures, and configurations. You can explore it live here: https://mariadb.org/mariadb-buildbot.
Building MariaDB, Bit by Bit
Buildbot is essential to the MariaDB Foundation’s mission. It ensures that […]
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Nextcloud joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsor, strengthening the European open source backbone

We are proud to welcome Nextcloud GmbH to the MariaDB Foundation sponsor family as a Silver Sponsor. As the world’s most popular privacy-focused platform for secure file sharing, collaboration, and communication, Nextcloud stands as a pillar of digital sovereignty — a value that resonates deeply with MariaDB Foundation’s mission.
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Crest Infosolutions LLC Joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsor

Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Open Source Innovation
The MariaDB Foundation is proud to welcome Crest Infosolutions LLC as a Silver Sponsor, marking a significant step forward in fostering enterprise-grade open-source adoption. This partnership underscores Crest’s mission to deliver robust, secure, and scalable technologies that empower global organizations to thrive in the era of digital transformation.
Driving Open Source Adoption Across Enterprises
Crest Infosolutions brings over a decade of experience in delivering open-source excellence to its clients. Crest is already a […]
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New Silver Sponsor: Releem Boosts MariaDB Performance with Smarter Tuning and Optimization

We’re delighted to welcome Releem as the newest Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Releem is a database performance management platform that helps teams ensure consistent and reliable database performance through continuous profiling, configuration tuning, and SQL query optimization. It brings together everything needed to streamline monitoring and performance improvements — all in one place.
With support for MariaDB, MySQL, Percona, and AWS Aurora, Releem works seamlessly across on-premise deployments (Linux, Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-managed environments such as AWS RDS.
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Scarf Joins as Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation

Scarf joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, bringing powerful analytics to help us understand and grow our open source community. Discover how this partnership supports transparency, adoption, and global collaboration.
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The Round Table Expands: A Queen’s Reflections on Unity and Momentum

Legend says Queen Guinevere once presided over a court where knights debated honor and destiny. In my version, the knights bring code diffs, sponsorship agreements, and opinions on open source governance. There’s less jousting, more Zoom calls — and while I lack a crown, I do wield a formidable calendar and an unshakable belief in collaboration.
As I reflect on the May 2025 meeting of the MariaDB Foundation Board, one truth stands tall (in shining armor): the MariaDB kingdom is […]
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New Silver Sponsor: Senticore Technologies Chooses MariaDB for High-Performance Engineering and AI Applications

We welcome Senticore Technologies as a Silver Sponsor. Senticore, a leader in engineering and manufacturing applications, focuses on cutting-edge AI solutions, particularly for the aerospace and defense sectors, and powers critical systems worldwide. Senticore addresses these sectors’ concerns with locally deployed LLMs. Their platform integrates PDFs related to manufacturing, maintenance, and inspections processes into the digital thread. MariaDB supports their data-intensive workloads, crucial for high performance, reliability, and security, and its Vector capabilities are particularly important to Senticore’s AI development, […]
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RAVATAR becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation

We’re excited to welcome RAVATAR as our Silver Sponsor! A bold innovator in artificial intelligence, RAVATAR is defining the emerging Face of AI through high-quality interactive digital humans and real-time AI avatars.
By crafting AI that communicates with emotion, insight, and purpose, RAVATAR advances its mission to humanize technology, making tech feel like a conversation rather than a command.
Their support for open-source communities like ours speaks to a clear commitment to shared innovation, radical transparency, and AI that puts […]