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Deploying MariaDB and WordPress on Kamatera
When deploying MariaDB in the cloud, controlling the infrastructure can be as important as controlling the database itself.
Plenty of cloud providers offer their own approaches to virtual machines, networking, storage, and managed services. One of them is Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider that recently joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor.
Kamatera (see in ecohub) offers customizable cloud servers across more than 20 data center locations worldwide. Instead of choosing from a limited set of predefined VM […]
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luroConnect joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome luroConnect as a Silver Sponsor, bringing practical experience in running MariaDB for Magento and Adobe Commerce merchants to our sponsor community.
luroConnect provides managed cloud hosting for eCommerce, with 24/7 application-aware support, deployed into customers’ own AWS or GCP accounts. Its team runs MariaDB in production for eCommerce stores and works with merchants and agencies on deployments, performance, migrations and ongoing operations, with particular expertise in Magento and Adobe Commerce.
For online stores, database […]
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The MariaDB Plugin API has Doxygen Documentation Now!
Developing plugins is one of the ways we really encourage to extend MariaDB Server’s capabilities. However, understanding the available APIs has often required developers to explore header files, source code, and existing plugin implementations.To make this easier, we now have a new, Doxygen-generated MariaDB Server Plugin API reference, available directly in the MariaDB documentation.If you’ve been following recent commits to the MariaDB Server repository, you may already have noticed some of the work behind this initiative. I’d like to present […]
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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026
InnoDB about 3x faster on in-memory workloads, the FOSDEM 2027 M-ecosystem devroom call for papers, parallel query execution, our first India meetup and 17 years of MariaDB Server.
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What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I built the type_hll plugin, which adds HyperLogLog sketches to MariaDB, and I use it here to answer that question.
The answer is mostly yes. One shared library, type_hll.so, registers the HLL data type and eight functions. You enable all of it with one statement:
The “mostly” is important. The HLL […]
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Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision
Last week was about PHP. This week, check your database.
On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known together as PHP2Shell. Exploit details leaked before the patch, attacks started within hours, and the only real fix was to upgrade PHP or shut down your website. Anyone running PHP 7 or earlier had no official patch at all.
If you run a hosting platform, you probably spent last […]
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Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution
MariaDB Server has executed every query on a single thread since the beginning. That is changing. In the first episode of Inner Join, our new video series with the engineers of the MariaDB core team, I sat down with Oleg Smirnov of the Optimizer team to talk about parallel query execution: why it took this long, how the implementation works under the hood, and what the first numbers look like.
Inner Join is the sibling of Outer Join, where contributors […]
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Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector
Earlier this month we wrote that Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Mohamed Touhami Rhaima, one of the community contributors who made that happen, has now written a tutorial on how to use it, and recorded a video version.
Why MariaDB Vector in Laravel
With Laravel 13 and MariaDB 11.7 or later, you can store embeddings and search them by meaning in the same database as the rest of your application data, using the framework’s own database features.
This […]