Category Archives: Announcements
As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database.
The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced incredible work on these two projects. Unfortunately, Giuseppe decided to archive the project in 2023. Read the announcement.
But finally, someone has decided to take up the torch. ProxySQL announced this big decision last month.
We at the MariaDB Foundation are very happy that dbdeployer has risen from the ashes thanks to the ProxySQL team, and we are committed to further developing and contributing to this great tool for all its users, especially those who use it to deploy MariaDB Server.
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Over the past month, one question has been coming up with increasing frequency:
What is the MySQL / MariaDB ecosystem?
In most discussions, the answer tends to focus on contributors to the source code: engineers, committers, and core developers shaping the database itself. That perspective is both valid and essential.
But it is only part of the picture.
Over the past few months, we have been looking at the ecosystem from a different angle:
What is being built around MariaDB?
Where is it being used?
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Continue reading “From Ecosystem to Architecture: Expanding How We Look at MariaDB”
The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Kurt Daniel, five-time CEO and current CEO of Virtuozzo, to its Board—bringing in a perspective shaped at the very heart of the database industry.
Kurt’s career spans leadership roles at MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server, where he helped drive both strategy and market expansion at scale. At MongoDB, he was part of the journey that turned an emerging open source project into a category-defining company. At Microsoft, he built and led a product management team for a database portfolio generating over $1.5 billion in revenue.
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If you’ve been around the MariaDB community for a while, you can probably feel it already: things are moving in the right direction.
And no, I’m not talking about one vanity metric, one lucky spike, or one noisy social post.
I’m talking about a broader trend.
The latest Adoption Index data shows something I really like to see: not one lucky spike, but multiple signals moving in the right direction at the same time.
Sometimes people want one number.
One chart. One KPI. One neat little story.
But open source projects do not work like that.
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Continue reading “MariaDB Keeps Climbing: Community, Adoption, and Momentum”
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.0 series. MariaDB 13.0 is a preview rolling release, published on 23 March 2026, and it continues the work started in 12.3 while adding a solid set of entirely new features.
And this one is interesting.
This preview release brings a nice mix of new SQL capabilities, better optimizer insight, richer metadata, and practical engine improvements. Not every feature is flashy, but many of them are exactly the kind of changes that make daily work with MariaDB smoother, clearer, and just a bit more powerful.
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We are pleased to welcome DBaasNow as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
As the MariaDB ecosystem continues to expand across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, the need for consistent, reliable, and scalable database operations has never been more important. DBaasNow brings a strong focus to this space with its database operations control plane, designed to standardize and automate database lifecycle management across diverse infrastructures.
Simplifying Operations Across Mixed Database Environments
Many organizations today operate MariaDB alongside other database technologies. Managing these environments efficiently is often challenging, particularly in governance, automation, and operational consistency.
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In the royal court of Naboo, Queen Amidala received delegations from many worlds.
Some arrived as long-standing allies. Others were travelers whose routes simply crossed the planet’s orbit. Engineers, merchants, explorers, and diplomats all brought something different to the court. Each had their own craft, their own technology, their own perspective. Together they formed a network of relationships that allowed the system to flourish.
Healthy ecosystems often grow this way. Not by decree, but by connection.
Modern data platforms are much the same.
MariaDB sits at the center of a wide and diverse landscape of tools, services, and platforms used by developers and organizations around the world.
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Continue reading “The Queen of Naboo and Many Systems: MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub”
We’re excited to welcome TidesDB as a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
TidesDB’s sponsorship directly supports our mission to strengthen the MariaDB ecosystem and accelerate innovation through open, community-driven collaboration. Their commitment reflects a shared belief that open source databases thrive when strong technology and strong communities grow together.
Beyond sponsorship, TidesDB is contributing meaningful technology to the ecosystem through a new pluggable storage engine for MariaDB, designed for modern hardware. This integration expands the range of workloads MariaDB can serve while giving users and developers more choice, performance options, and flexibility.
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