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Be it known: MariaDB Server now has a clearer, publicly documented governance framework covering technical roles, subsystem ownership, decision-making, response expectations and continuity.

Open source begins with access to the code. Yet for infrastructure expected to remain dependable for many years, openness must also extend to how responsibility is assigned, how decisions are made, and what happens when people disagree or move on.

The framework formalises much of how the project has long worked, while making its responsibilities, decision paths and commitments clearer and easier to inspect.

The central principle is simple: authority should be visible, earned and connected to responsibility.

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We are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.

Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. Its technology helps organisations move data across database systems and keep data fresh between operational systems, analytics platforms, and application environments.

For MariaDB users, this matters because data movement is often part of real-world database adoption. Organisations do not choose databases in isolation. They need practical ways to migrate, replicate, modernise, integrate, and operate across mixed environments. Wirekite supports MariaDB as both a source and target database, helping make MariaDB easier to include in broader data architectures.

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When we talk about open source contributions, we often focus immediately on the code.

How many lines were changed?
What feature was added?
What do the benchmarks show?

But sometimes, the most interesting part is not the feature itself. It is the journey that transforms a production problem inside one company into an improvement available to an entire community.

This is exactly what happened with Headout, Arcadiy Ivanov (Karellen, Inc), and MariaDB Server.

The technical result is support for BLOB values in in-memory internal temporary tables.

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Sometimes a change happens progressively, one compatibility matrix at a time, until somebody finally writes down what has already become obvious.

This time, Adobe wrote it down.

In its database compatibility guidance for Adobe Commerce, Adobe now describes MariaDB as the default and recommended database platform going forward.

This is the future direction of Adobe Commerce, and, I must admit, this is very nice to read.

Magento, Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce

Before going further, it is useful to clarify the names, because Magento and Adobe Commerce are often used interchangeably, even though they do not refer to exactly the same product.

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The Queen of Sheba did not travel lightly.

She arrived in Jerusalem with difficult questions, a large caravan, camels carrying spices, and an impressive quantity of gold. She had heard stories about Solomon’s wisdom and the prosperity of his kingdom, and she came to examine it for herself. The main methodological difference between us is that she did not send a Calendly link first.

After seeing the court, the people, the organisation and everything that had been built, she admitted that the reports had failed to capture its true scale:

“Not even half was told me.”

The story does not tell whether she arrived on a high horse.

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We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor.

IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® Power® and IBM Z®, reflecting a shared interest in ensuring that MariaDB Server remains available, well tested and relevant across a broad range of architectures and demanding production environments.