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Open Source Performance, Benchmarks and MariaDB: A Conversation with Steve Shaw
Right after the recent MariaDB Meetup in London, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Steve Shaw – founder and CEO of HammerDB, former Principal Engineer at Intel, and board member of the MariaDB Foundation. Steve delivered the keynote talk at the event and has a unique perspective on performance, open source, and the intersection between commercial and community-driven database development.
This blog post captures our conversation – a dialogue between two people passionate about open source and database […]
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RAVATAR becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We’re excited to welcome RAVATAR as our Silver Sponsor! A bold innovator in artificial intelligence, RAVATAR is defining the emerging Face of AI through high-quality interactive digital humans and real-time AI avatars.
By crafting AI that communicates with emotion, insight, and purpose, RAVATAR advances its mission to humanize technology, making tech feel like a conversation rather than a command.
Their support for open-source communities like ours speaks to a clear commitment to shared innovation, radical transparency, and AI that puts […]
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The Queen, the contributions and the wardrobe
I suppose not all of my readers have a first hand (or even second hand) experience of the girls-night-in. So let me shed some light on this sacred ritual of tea, sympathy and soul-baring conversation that zigzags from the ridiculous to the profound and back again in under 30 seconds.
There a few eternal mysteries that always seem to come up –Like:“Why do I have nothing to wear when my wardrobe is clearly full of clothes?” And:“Why does cat food […]
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MariaDB Vector and RAG at foss-north 2025
I had the delight of being accepted to talk about “Making AI transparent with RAG on your own data” at foss-north 2025 in Gothenburg, Sweden. On April 14th at Chalmers University, I got to share with a full room on how AI RAG is done with MariaDB Vector, kicking off with a use case about scaling Wikipedia editing with GenAI.
Improving Wikipedia with RAG
I presented a use case example from my experience of editing Wikipedia at scale with GenAI […]
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New Silver Sponsor: Kinsta Chooses MariaDB for Scalable, Open WordPress Hosting
We’re pleased to welcome Kinsta as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation. Kinsta, one of the leading managed WordPress hosting providers, powers thousands of websites globally with a platform built for speed, scalability, and security — and MariaDB plays a central role in that architecture.
Kinsta also holds the highest G2 score of any managed hosting provider or web hosting provider. In 2022, the company was listed under the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Products.” Kinsta offers 24/7 support 365 […]
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The Queen’s Gambit: Through the Looking Glass into the Query Optimizer
There’s a question I like to ask people sometimes—especially at turning points:
“What’s your word?”
One word to capture how you feel, where you are, or what’s driving you right now. No explanations. Just instinct.
Today, mine is: Adventure.
Not necessarily the reckless kind, but the kind that stretches you—where you step into something unfamiliar and see what happens. That’s exactly what this season at MariaDB is like.
And maybe the most “adventurous” thing I’ve done so far? Emailing Andy […]
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Tempesta Technologies Becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We are delighted to welcome Tempesta Technologies as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation!
Tempesta Technologies is the developer of Tempesta FW, an open-source hybrid of a web accelerator and a multi-layer firewall. Engineered for maximum efficiency, Tempesta FW is tightly integrated with the Linux TCP/IP stack and leverages cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional web application performance. It provides robust protection against DDoS and web attacks while ensuring smooth, high-speed operation under normal conditions.
This partnership underscores MariaDB Server’s […]
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Vettabase Becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
We are excited to announce that Vettabase has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor!
Vettabase is a trusted provider of database consulting services, with a strong focus on open-source technologies. Their team brings deep expertise in MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Cassandra, helping organizations around the world optimize database performance, reliability, and scalability.
Vettabase has long been an active contributor to the MariaDB ecosystem. They maintain the widely appreciated Awesome MariaDB list on GitHub—a curated collection of tools, articles, […]