The ideation phase of the MariaDB-Python Hackathon wrapped up on Sunday — and the response was phenomenal!
A huge thanks to everyone who joined the journey: from the BangPypers’ meetup announcement to the AMA webinars, from registration on HackerEarth to the final idea submissions — your creativity and energy made this phase a success!
We have been evaluating idea submissions as they have dropped in, with a final big push now after the deadline – we even brought AI into the loop to help out. The deadline was extended by a few days by popular demand, and to accommodate the local Indian holidays.
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We want to know how you’re really using MariaDB. Not the marketing version. Not the idealized case study. The real story—what you’re building, what tools you’re using, what’s working, and what’s frustrating.
So we built a survey. Take the survey now, or read on.
Why This Matters
Your responses will help shape:
- MariaDB roadmap priorities
- Documentation and tutorials
- Tooling development
- A public report on how MariaDB is actually being used in 2025
After running pilots, we’re genuinely excited about the insights we are uncovering.
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The news has circulated quietly in industry corners, but the implications are far too significant to brush aside: Oracle seems to have ended the Open Source era of MySQL.
I am not a spokesperson for Oracle, yet the signs are unmistakable. Entire teams associated with MySQL at Oracle have been dissolved, spanning engineering, development and sales. On LinkedIn, I’ve received a wave of messages from former colleagues — both long-time MySQL veterans and those who joined Oracle years after MariaDB was founded in 2009.
The impression is clear: Oracle has made a rational business decision to pivot towards AI and cloud, where MySQL only matters insofar as it strengthens OCI and Heatwave.
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Phillippe Balzli, CTO at zvoove Switzerland AG, shared in an interview with Kaj Arnö of MariaDB Foundation how the company navigated legacy software, rapid growth, and evolving customer needs – all with the help of MariaDB.
Who is zvoove?
zvoove Switzerland AG is a Swiss-based software company that provides tailored solutions for personnel service providers. The company has evolved significantly over the years, transitioning from M&D Computers to backoffice, and finally to zvoove Switzerland AG. Current CTO Phillippe Balzli took over leadership in 2023, continuing the company’s journey toward modern, scalable infrastructure built on MariaDB.
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Not what AI can do for MariaDB – but what MariaDB can do for AI
I have hinted at this before (This Month in MariaDB – August 2025), but it deserves to be said again: our vision for MariaDB’s role in AI is both clear and ambitious. We do not simply want to participate in the AI space – we aim to be the bridge between real-world data and modern AI systems.
Large Language Models are, at their core, vast read-only neural networks. The data that organisations truly depend upon does not reside inside these models;
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The final days are here for the Foundation’s first large-scale hackathon, the MariaDB Python Hackathon we’re organising in partnership with BangPypers (the Bangalore Python Meetup, a group with about 14,000 members) and HackerEarth (a Hackathon organiser). Do come with your final submissions of ideas at mariadb-python.hackerearth.com within the next two days – in October, it’s development time!
The magnitude is new for MariaDB Foundation
Already, we’re quite proud of the results. Last Wednesday, I reported to the MariaDB Foundation Board meeting that we have over 3,000 registered individuals and 250 team idea submissions.
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MariaDB Foundation is delighted to announce that Passbolt has joined as a Silver Sponsor, further strengthening the European open source ecosystem.Passbolt is the European open source platform for secure credential collaboration. It can be used for managing passwords, secrets, and privileged accesses. Passbolt is built for security-conscious tech teams while remaining usable by everyone. It adapts to a large variety of use cases, from IT and DevOps workflows to organization-wide credential management. It supports secure collaboration with granular access controls, and can be self-hosted to meet data sovereignty and compliance needs. Today, more than 50,000 organizations, including governments, startups and regulated companies, use Passbolt everyday to protect their most critical credentials while retaining transparency, control, and auditability.
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We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 12.2 series. MariaDB 12.2 will be a rolling release.
MariaDB 12.2 introduces numerous new features, in particular
Compatibility features
- TO_NUMBER() function (MDEV-20022)
- TRUNC() function (MDEV-20023)
- Global Temporary Tables (MDEV-35915)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]ROWID_FILTER (MDEV-36089)
- Optimizer hints: [NO_]INDEX_MERGE (MDEV-36125)
- INFORMATION_SCHEMA table TRIGGERED_UPDATE_COLUMNS (MDEV-36996)
- Optimizer hints support for named query blocks and views (MDEV-37511)
Miscellaneous
- INFORMATION_SCHEMA table PARAMETERS has a new column PARAMETER_DEFAULT (MDEV-37054)
- Improved support of replication between tables of different structure (MDEV-36290)
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!
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