Blog
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How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5
Publishing on behalf of Alessandro Vetere.
Conclusions first: InnoDB in-memory workloads started paying for LRU management in 10.5, a performance regression, and I think the reason is that a clock, which was meant to say “eviction has started”, began ticking much earlier. A minimal fix would bring back the old meaning of the clock. The fix that we pushed tries to do more: it takes buf_pool.mutex out of the LRU promotion on a page access, not only for in-memory workloads. […]
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FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together
One ecosystem, many projects, shared challenges. Join us in Brussels on Sunday, January 31, 2027, for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM!
Building on the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, this new chapter expands its scope and ambition, bringing together developers and contributors from across the open-source database ecosystem to share knowledge, tackle common challenges, and foster collaboration across projects.
The “M” is bigger than ever
Today, the M-ecosystem includes MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Server […]
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The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World
Jonathan Miller has spent 27 years in database performance testing. He talks about TAF, the open source Test Automation Framework that benchmarks MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL side by side, configuration provenance, and how to prove your patch made MariaDB faster.
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Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Atarim as a Silver sponsor, strengthening the connection between MariaDB and the agencies and hosting providers shaping the web.
Atarim is an AI web agency that plugs into existing web agencies and does the client work. Agencies point it at the sites they look after, and it designs, writes, fixes and ships changes under their brand, while the agency keeps the client relationship and approves what goes live. Hosting providers also offer Atarim to […]
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Amazic joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Amazic as a Silver Sponsor, adding a new supporter with strong connections across the software ecosystem.
Amazic connects innovative software vendors with partners, developers and organisations looking to adopt modern technologies. Combining software distribution with technical enablement, training, content and community-focused events, Amazic helps bridge the gap between technology innovation and real-world adoption. MariaDB Enterprise is already part of Amazic’s software portfolio, making its support for the MariaDB Foundation a natural extension of its […]
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MariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with TAF
TidesDB now exists inside MariaDB as a pluggable storage engine.
With the TideSQL plugin available, anyone can load TidesDB into a MariaDB server and begin experimenting with it.
But having a plugin is only the first step — you still need a practical, reproducible way to run real workloads against it, that’s where TAF comes in.
This blog exists to give anyone interested in TidesDB a roadmap to the city of benchmarking it — a clear, reproducible starting point for […]
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MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 15 October 2026
The first half of October belonged to the ecosystem. The MariaDB Ecosystem Hub passed 200 entries six months after launch, Laravel 13 gained native MariaDB Vector support through community contributors, and Frappe and Solanica joined the Foundation as Silver Sponsors. The Foundation’s testing framework learned PostgreSQL, reproduced a regression reported by Mark Callaghan and confirmed the fix, and Frédéric Descamps explained why 173 security reports in two quarters is good news. Here’s what happened.
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Solanica joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
We are pleased to welcome Solanica, the company driving the development of OpenEverest, as a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor.
OpenEverest is an open-source platform for deploying and managing databases on Kubernetes. Its recently added MariaDB support gives developers and platform teams another way to bring MariaDB into their infrastructure, with deployment, high availability, backups and recovery accessible through a common interface.
MariaDB in the Kubernetes ecosystem
For organisations running applications on Kubernetes, database support is an important part of their […]