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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Global cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDB
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers.
ScalaHosting provides managed cloud VPS, web hosting and high-availability hosting services to customers around the world. Its platforms support MariaDB as a database option for websites, applications and online businesses, giving developers and organisations access to open-source database technology within professionally managed hosting environments.
Through its Gold sponsorship, ScalaHosting is investing in the independent, community-led development and long-term continuity of MariaDB Server.
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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.
Open source across enterprise platforms
MariaDB Server is used in environments ranging from individual developer machines and cloud infrastructure to business-critical enterprise systems.
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Names are important.
They help us identify people, projects, products, pets, database servers, and occasionally the correct bug tracker.
This may sound obvious, but the database world has spent more than fifteen years proving that it is not.
MySQL and MariaDB share a substantial amount of history, syntax, tooling, knowledge, applications, and community. They also have similar command names, compatible protocols, familiar configuration variables, and many users who simply say “MySQL” when they actually mean:
Some database server that speaks the MySQL protocol and probably has an executable named mysqld.
And most of the time, everybody understands.
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In my previous post, I introduced the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack.
Nextcloud for collaboration, Passbolt for passwords and secrets, and MariaDB Server for the data.
Simple enough.
But after explaining what the stack is, the next question is usually very practical:
Where can I deploy it?
And the answer should not be:
On the cloud provider the template was written for.
That would be a strange way to talk about digital sovereignty.
If the architecture is really meant to give you more control, you should also have some freedom regarding where it runs.
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Database migrations are rarely only about replacing one database server with another.
In real production systems, especially in fintech, a migration is usually about reducing risk, keeping the application online, improving scalability, and giving teams more room to evolve the architecture without freezing product development.
This story is about a fintech B2B enterprise that migrated from a monolithic PostgreSQL 12 environment to MariaDB 11. The company runs a payments-related platform for discounts and cashback, where users can check balances, transaction history, applicable discounts, and other account information. The payment-related part of the workload was mostly transactional, while the rest was mixed, with roughly 60% reads and 40% writes.
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