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Announcing the MariaDB Vector Bounty Program!
Today, we are excited to announce a new fund to help give MariaDB Vector a high-quality integration into as many LLM frameworks as possible. This means that you can get rewarded for integrating MariaDB Vector into a known framework! This program will run until the end of February 2025.
How it will work
An example of a previous upstreamed integration can be found in the LlamaIndex repository.
Rules and information
The bounty for each completed project will be paid €1500. […]
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MariaDB – the Foundation, the Company, and the Future of the Sea Lion
Did you read the TechCrunch article on MariaDB? “How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO“. If not, I suggest you do!
We’re in India 23-25 Oct 2024!
And if you want to know more, and happen to be in India at the end of the month, come and listen to me interviewing MariaDB creator Michael “Monty” Widenius, MariaDB plc’s new CEO Rohit de Souza, and MariaDB plc’s new Chief Product Officer […]
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MariaDB Contribution Statistics, October 2024
Another quarter year has gone by, and in the world of MariaDB, it is time for another contributions report. The raw data for this report can be found on GitHub, here.
Server contributions
Just like last quarter, I’m going to start with a breakdown of all the organisations who have contributed to MariaDB Server so far this year.
There have been some interesting things to note here. The first is that Google Summer of Code season has now ended. Some […]
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Announcing the first MariaDB Hackathon – in India!
Update 2024-10-15: The event has been cancelled in favour of something better. Please see the end of this post.
On the 24th – 25th October 2024 we will be hosting our first-ever Hackathon as part of our larger MariaDB Foundation presence around Open Source India.
What is a Hackathon?
If you have never done one before, it is basically a fun and challenging technology event where the goal is to create new things. Attendees are split into small teams of […]
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MariaDB 11.7.0 preview release available
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.7.0, a preview of the MariaDB 11.7 series. MariaDB 11.7 will be a rolling release.
MariaDB 11.7.0 introduces numerous new features, in particular
* Functions to generate UUID version 4 and version 7. A contribution by Stefano Petrilli. * Near-instant binlogging of large transactions (avoid copying into the binary log). A contribution by Song Libing. * Faster crash recovery where prepared transactions are rolled back asynchronously. A contribution by […]
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MariaDB Foundation assisting multiple vendors
I recently helped two of our sponsors simultaneously, DBS Bank and MariaDB Plc, with a recent issue they were experiencing. This actually helped us add support for an extra cloud vendor. But before I tell the story, I first need to give a bit of background.
S3 Engine History
Back in 2019, we added the S3 engine to MariaDB Server. “S3” stands for “Simple Storage Service”, it was developed by Amazon, and it is pretty much the standard for storing […]
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SQL Fiddles updated to MariaDB 11.4
There are a number of SQL Fiddles, web interfaces to databases for testing / learning SQL. Recently we noticed the versions on these falling behind and not presenting users with updates that would deliver the latest MariaDB features and bug fixes.
In reaching out to the people that manage these fiddles we’re pleased to announce that so far, two providers have updated their MariaDB version(s).
PHPize.online / SQLize.online
PHPize.online and SQLize.online are the pet projects of Slava Rozhnev. These have […]
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Intel improving the performance of MariaDB Vector
As you have probably seen in earlier posts, the preview version of MariaDB Vector is out and ready for you to play with. We have had input from several different places during the development of this feature. This, of course, includes hardware manufacturers such as Intel.
In the background, Intel have been prototyping using AVX512 instructions for dot product and bloom filter. Both of these are functions are part of vector searches. If you haven’t heard of these terms, let […]