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MariaDB Day Sat 1 Feb 2025 in Brussels
We have the date, we have the place , we have the theme! So we ask you to save the date.
Date: Saturday 1 Feb 2025 (10:00-17:00)
Place: Brussels, SQ Lily-Rose, Avenue Arnaud Fraiteur 15-23, close to FOSDEM
Theme: Vectors, RAG and all things new in MariaDB Server
Registration: Please register here with Meetup
With the Open Source community convening for FOSDEM, we have noted Brussels during the first weekend of February is a great time to meet, chat, and […]
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Try RAG with MariaDB Vector on your own MariaDB data!
The day has come that you have been waiting for since the ChatGPT hype began: You can now build creative AI apps using your own data in MariaDB Server! By creating embeddings of your own data and storing them in your own MariaDB Server, you can develop RAG solutions where LLMs can efficiently execute prompts based on your own specific data as context.
Why RAG?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) creates more accurate, fact-based GenAI answers based on data of your own […]
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Talk: The implementation of MariaDB parallel replication
On November 6 2024 I presented a talk with the title: “The implementation of MariaDB parallel replication” at a local TeqHub meetup in Copenhagen.
In the talk I first presented how MariaDB replication works overall. I then described the central idea of optimistic parallel replication. Finally I described three details of the implementation: transaction scheduling; conflict detection; and efficient commit ordering. Here are the slides for the presentation.
I was very impressed by the level of the engagement of the […]
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MariaDB 11.6.2 and MariaDB 11.7.1 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.7.1, the latest rolling release Release Candidate (RC), and MariaDB 11.6.2, the latest Generally Available (GA) rolling release.
A subset of the new features in MariaDB 11.7 include:
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Protect your data with MariaDB Server and Intel® TDX
In 2023, Intel launched Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX), their latest Confidential Computing technology that ensures data in use protection for hardware-isolated virtual machines and verified hardware and software integrity through attestation.
In this blog post, we will show that MariaDB Server can run correctly on an Intel® TDX enabled VM and that the in-memory data is protected from outside actors, even from the host OS running the VM. By coupling Intel’s Confidential Computing technology with MariaDB Server build […]
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MariaDB 11.4.4, 11.2.6, 10.11.10, 10.6.20 and 10.5.27 now available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.4.4, MariaDB 10.11.10, MariaDB 10.6.20 and MariaDB 10.5.27, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates), as well as MariaDB 11.2.6 the latest and final scheduled release in the 11.2 short-term series (maintained for one year)
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Download MariaDB 11.4.4
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.4?
Download MariaDB 11.2.6
Release […]
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Celebrating 15 years of innovation
We have been in festive mode this week, celebrating fifteen years of MariaDB. You may have seen our very own Ian Gilfillan’s blog MariaDB Server turns fifteen!, or the blog of Alejandro Duarte of MariaDB plc, MariaDB Server Turns 15! Here Are 15 Reasons Why Developers and DBAs Love It.
Technical overview by the creator of MariaDB Server
Now, MariaDB Server’s creator Michael »Monty« Widenius has chimed in, with a lot of technical detail. Hardly anybody is better equipped to […]
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MariaDB Server turns fifteen!
Fifteen years ago, Internet Explorer made up about two-thirds of all browsers, Firefox the majority of the rest, while a newly-released browser called Chrome was starting to appear in the rankings.
Fifteen years ago, iPhone OS overtook Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone market share, but still trailed the giants of Blackberry’s RIM and Symbian, used by market leader Nokia, while Google’s new Android ecosystem was just starting to show signs of momentum.
And in the database world, as Oracle moved […]