Author Archives: Frédéric Descamps
I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”
Good.
But then you look a bit closer.
Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. Passwords are in browsers, in chat messages, sometimes in a document with a name like credentials-final-v3. Backups? “The provider handles that.” Maybe. Where is the data exactly? “In Europe, normally.” Who has access? That’s when the room becomes quiet.
I don’t call that a privacy strategy.
I call that hoping nothing goes wrong.
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We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series.
MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release.
But this time, there is something really interesting.
And by “interesting”, I mean: wow!
MariaDB 13.1 Preview includes 32 MDEVs with new features and improvements. To put that in perspective:
| MariaDB Server 12.2 | 11 |
| MariaDB Server 12.3 | 15 |
| MariaDB Server 13.0 | 17 |
| MariaDB Server 13.1 | 32 |
How to make Joro happy
That is almost twice MariaDB 13.0, more than twice MariaDB 12.3, and almost three times MariaDB 12.2.
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MariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well.
But every maintained series eventually reaches the end of its maintenance lifetime.
MariaDB Community Server 10.6 will reach End of Life on 6 July 2026.
After that date, the MariaDB Foundation will no longer provide maintenance releases for MariaDB Community Server 10.6. That means no more bug fixes, no more security fixes, and no more corrective releases for that branch.
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Interview with Sylvain Arbaudie, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.
The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone.
Let’s continue the series of interviews with nominees for the MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Sylvain Arbaudie, a nominee for our “Sea Lions Champions” program in the Technical Excellence category. With over a decade of experience in the MariaDB ecosystem, Sylvain offers valuable insights into the platform’s evolution, its role in the AI landscape, and the crucial function of the MariaDB Foundation.
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MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server.
The idea is very interesting: use MariaDB Server as usual, but create some tables using ENGINE=DuckDB and benefit from DuckDB’s columnar storage and vectorized execution for analytical queries.
In other words, we can keep our transactional workload in InnoDB, and use DuckDB tables for analytics… in the same MariaDB instance. Not a new concept, but a new and powerful implementation!
This is, of course, not something I would recommend for production today;
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On May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases:
These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great!
On behalf of the MariaDB Foundation and the entire MariaDB Team, let me thank you all!
If we refer to MariaDB Server 11.8, we have about 62 contributions from 35 external contributors.
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Interview with Mark Callaghan, nominated in the Technical Excellence category.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Callaghan, recently nominated for the MariaDB Sea Lion Champions program in the “Technical Excellence” category. Mark is a respected figure in the database community, known for his in-depth performance analysis and contributions to the open-source dialogue.
The Interview
lefred: Mark, congratulations on your nomination as a MariaDB Sea Lion Champion. How do you feel about this recognition?
Mark Callaghan: I am always grateful for acknowledgment. But I’m a private person, so I’m not always comfortable standing out.
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Have you ever written a query where the GROUP BY was easy, but the aggregate was the problem?
You know how to group the rows.
You know what result you want for each group.
But none of the built-in aggregate functions really match your logic.
So you end up with a long expression using SUM(), CASE, IF(), GROUP_CONCAT(), JSON functions, or application-side code. It works, but it is not beautiful. And if you need the same logic in several places, it becomes even worse.
This is exactly the kind of problem MariaDB’s CREATE AGGREGATE FUNCTION solves.
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