You may have noticed that MySQL Workbench has not been actively developed for a long time… You can see the number of open bugs. And the number of commits illustrates this too:
In fact, Workbench has been put out of maintenance mode to add the MySQL HeatWave Migration Assistant to OCI. Not less, no more.
On some versions, it is no longer able to connect to a MariaDB Server, or to use it on new OSes (Fedora 43, recent macOS, …).
These kinds of GUI tools are very popular for developers, and I was surprised by the number of users Workbench had.
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In the royal court of Naboo, Queen Amidala received delegations from many worlds.
Some arrived as long-standing allies. Others were travelers whose routes simply crossed the planet’s orbit. Engineers, merchants, explorers, and diplomats all brought something different to the court. Each had their own craft, their own technology, their own perspective. Together they formed a network of relationships that allowed the system to flourish.
Healthy ecosystems often grow this way. Not by decree, but by connection.
Modern data platforms are much the same.
MariaDB sits at the center of a wide and diverse landscape of tools, services, and platforms used by developers and organizations around the world.
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We recently asked the community:
“Which MySQL-compatibility feature would you most like to see in the next MariaDB release?”
A big thank you to everyone who voted. We received 506 votes, and the results give us a helpful snapshot of which compatibility gaps feel most important to users right now.
Poll results
A two-feature race
The first thing that jumps out is how close the top two were.
MEMBER OF json operator (MDEV-38591) came in first with 145 votes, but bitwise operators for binary and bit types (MDEV-10526) were right behind it with 138 votes.
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Introduction
Over the past weeks, questions around Galera, high availability, and continuity have generated understandable concern within parts of the MariaDB community.
Clarity matters in moments like this.That is also why this response was unfortunately not immediate. It was important to understand the full picture and ensure that what we communicate reflects the actual state of responsibilities and decisions.
This post explains where things stand today, what has changed, and how the MariaDB Foundation views its role going forward. Directly. Transparently. With responsibility.
Galera and the community: acknowledging the reality
High availability has always mattered.
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I wanted to share with you all some statistics on the incoming community contributions for the MariaDB server in the last year or so. And some of my thoughts looking at the data.
I’ve been quietly working on scripting some of my daily routines using the github CLI and the Jira REST API. Thanks to a question by Anna, the visionary MariaDB Foundation CEO, I’ve also created some scripts to fetch and summarize statistics on the incoming community contributions pull requests.
A picture’s worth a thousand words. So here we go:
This depicts the community pull requests opened or closed each month (the top graph).
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Why MariaDB is both its own database — and the natural continuation of MySQL
Because MariaDB is at the same time a completely independent database and a fundamentally compatible extension of MySQL, the MySQL user base is not dependent upon Oracle nor upon new forks of MySQL for their future. For pragmatical reasons – and those have always carried weight in the MySQL universe – MariaDB is part of the MySQL ecosystem.
Applications, teams, skills, investments, and use cases — all of it remains viable within the MariaDB part of the MySQL ecosystem.
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We’re excited to welcome TidesDB as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
TidesDB’s sponsorship directly supports our mission to strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem and accelerate innovation through open, community-driven collaboration. Their commitment reflects a shared belief that open source databases thrive when strong technology and strong communities grow together.
Beyond sponsorship, TidesDB is contributing meaningful technology to the ecosystem through a new pluggable storage engine for MariaDB, designed for modern hardware. This integration expands the range of workloads MariaDB can serve while giving users and developers more choice, performance options, and flexibility.
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The MariaDB Foundation is releasing the alpha version of the Test Automation Framework (TAF), an open-source benchmarking framework designed for clarity, repeatability, and vendor-neutral testing. TAF provides a structured way to run database benchmarks using consistent workloads, configuration, and reporting pipelines, making results easier to reproduce and discuss.
TAF has evolved into a modular system built around three plugin types: database maker plugins, test suite plugins, and report plugins. This architecture keeps the core stable while allowing contributors to extend the framework with new database engines, workloads, and reporting formats.
The alpha includes maker plugins for MariaDB and MySQL, test suites for Sysbench and HammerDB (TPROC-C and TPROC-H), and a set of report plugins for raw text, charts, and combined summaries.
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