Author: Robert Silén

  • Amazon contributes to MariaDB Vector

    MariaDB Vector preview was recently released, bringing much awaited Vector Search functionality to MariaDB Server. One of the major open source contributors to MariaDB Vector has been Amazon. To share the excitement and get an inside view about what it’s like to contribute to MariaDB Server, I had a chat with software engineer Hugo Wen on the Amazon RDS team. 

    Hugo’s contributions to MariaDB Vector

    Hugo Wen’s work on vector similarity search in MariaDB and MySQL started when Amazon’s leadership identified […]

  • Why I keep choosing MariaDB

    Richard Bensley

    Users of open source software don’t always share their stories, simply because they are satisfied. That’s why we were delighted to accept an offer from database expert Richard Bensley to share why he has repeatedly used MariaDB over the years. 

    I had a chat with Richard and learnt that he has seen MariaDB as a user, customer, and even an employee of MariaDB. Despite experimenting with other solutions, new and old, his passion for MariaDB and the people behind hasn’t […]

  • Improving MariaDB support in open source projects

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    As part of MariaDB’s efforts in Adoption, we have been working on support of MariaDB in open source projects. 

    The open source projects we have been looking at range from well known, ready to use projects like WordPress or MediaWiki (that Wikipedia runs on), to under-the-hood solutions like ORMs that connect software with databases for countless other open source and private projects.

    MariaDB is the de facto standard that many projects and users are running. As MariaDB diverges, matures and […]