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Back from Brussels! With a bit of time to reflect, I’d like to share the aftertaste from our MariaDB Day, our very own FOSDEM Fringe Event. Prepare for an information-packed blog entry with links to the presentations, including live recordings and often the slide decks.
Billionaire controversy cancelled
Brussels during the first weekend of February is a hotbed of Open Source. The weather might not be hot, in contrast to the discussions in the corridors and rooms of the ULB university. The hottest topic expected – boycotting the presentation of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey – didn’t really happen.
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Time to sign up! The schedule is out for our first 2025 MariaDB Day, in Brussels 1 Feb 2025.
And what a schedule it is, with insightful presentations by top-brass presenters.
The latest new features
First of all, this is the opportunity to get the big picture of the latest new features in MariaDB.
- Peter Zaitsev of Percona gives an external overview of the “Splendidly wonderful features in MariaDB 11” – looking forward to another one of his top-rated presentations!
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New Year’s Eve is when everyone takes stock of the year that has passed. At MariaDB Foundation, we’re no different.
The technical highlight: MariaDB Vector
It’s not hard to pick the technical MariaDB highlight of the year: It’s MariaDB Vector.
No big surprise there: The biggest new thing in IT is AI. AI is getting mainstream. Mainstream applications need databases. Databases need stability, performance, ease of use. And low cost.
The solution: MariaDB Server. It’s relational. It’s standard. It’s Open Source.
The business highlight: MariaDB plc on a solid footing
It’s equally easy to pick the business MariaDB highlight of the year: K1 taking over MariaDB plc.
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Continue reading “MariaDB highlights in 2024: Vectors, K1, and contributions”
We’re no mind readers, so from time to time, we like to do polls. Polls are quantitative in nature, so coming up with the right question is not enough – we need to do a bit of mind reading in coming up with the alternatives.
Quick development of text based RAG apps
Our hypothesis was that RAG is the cool thing to do with vector based databases, and specifically text based RAG. The conference talks we’ve given on MariaDB Vector (such as at the 24th SFSCON in Bozen, Südtirol, Italy on 8 Nov 2024) have stressed the value of easily being able to develop AI applications that answer user prompts based on knowledge in a specific text mass, not on the overall training data of an LLM.
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Continue reading “What do you expect from vector storage in databases?”
Good news: IBM is upgrading their Gold sponsorship to Platinum!
Our trinity: Adoption, Openness, Continuity
The three pillars of MariaDB Foundation are Adoption, Openness, and Continuity.
Adoption means that we work towards MariaDB Server to be used everywhere, where you need databases. We think Open Source RDBMSes are the way to go, and we want you to choose MariaDB Server.
Openness means that we work towards making it easy for everyone to contribute towards making MariaDB Server the best Open Source RDBMS. Be it code, documentation, training materials, bug reports, feature requests.
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We have the date, we have the place , we have the theme! So we ask you to save the date.
Date: Saturday 1 Feb 2025 (10:00-17:00)
Place: Brussels, SQ Lily-Rose, Avenue Arnaud Fraiteur 15-23, close to FOSDEM
Theme: Vectors, RAG and all things new in MariaDB Server
Registration: Please register here with Meetup
With the Open Source community convening for FOSDEM, we have noted Brussels during the first weekend of February is a great time to meet, chat, and share news and ideas.
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We have been in festive mode this week, celebrating fifteen years of MariaDB. You may have seen our very own Ian Gilfillan’s blog MariaDB Server turns fifteen!, or the blog of Alejandro Duarte of MariaDB plc, MariaDB Server Turns 15! Here Are 15 Reasons Why Developers and DBAs Love It.
Technical overview by the creator of MariaDB Server
Now, MariaDB Server’s creator Michael »Monty« Widenius has chimed in, with a lot of technical detail. Hardly anybody is better equipped to create this technical overview, Celebrating 15 years of MariaDB.
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Did you read the TechCrunch article on MariaDB? “How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO“. If not, I suggest you do!
We’re in India 23-25 Oct 2024!
And if you want to know more, and happen to be in India at the end of the month, come and listen to me interviewing MariaDB creator Michael “Monty” Widenius, MariaDB plc’s new CEO Rohit de Souza, and MariaDB plc’s new Chief Product Officer Vikas Mathur. We’ll be at Open Source India on 23-24 Oct 2024 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and we’re adding a MariaDB ServerFest India on Friday 25 Oct 2024.
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Continue reading “MariaDB – the Foundation, the Company, and the Future of the Sea Lion”