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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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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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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor.
Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. Its flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, helps organizations manage database availability, disaster recovery and distributed deployments across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
The company has worked with open-source database technologies for more than two decades and brings extensive experience from demanding production environments across SaaS, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce and other industries.
“Continuent has a long history in the MariaDB and wider open-source database ecosystem.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year.
Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. Both projects form part of a broader open-source ecosystem that enables businesses, public-sector organisations and individuals to build digital services without unnecessary dependence on proprietary platforms.
Over the past year, our collaboration has also developed through the Privacy-First Solution Stack, which brings together Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server in a practical open-source architecture for secure collaboration, password management and data storage.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem.
Passbolt is an open-source password manager designed for teams, with a strong focus on security, privacy, and user control. Its continued support reflects a shared commitment to building practical, trustworthy open-source infrastructure that organizations can deploy and operate with confidence.
Building on the Privacy-First Stack
During the first year of collaboration, Passbolt became part of the Privacy-First Solution Stack alongside Nextcloud and MariaDB Server.
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MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor.
Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. The platform provides the underlying architecture, governance, integration, and runtime capabilities required to develop and operate business applications at scale, helping organisations automate complex processes without building and maintaining every application from scratch.
As part of the next stage of its platform evolution, Aqtra has selected MariaDB Server as the strategic database foundation for its next-generation architecture.
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MariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well.
But every maintained series eventually reaches the end of its maintenance lifetime.
MariaDB Community Server 10.6 will reach End of Life on 6 July 2026.
After that date, the MariaDB Foundation will no longer provide maintenance releases for MariaDB Community Server 10.6. That means no more bug fixes, no more security fixes, and no more corrective releases for that branch.
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An early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB — columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables.
The problem
MariaDB’s InnoDB is excellent at what it was built for: transactions. Row-by-row inserts, updates, point lookups, strong consistency. But the moment you ask it to scan tens of millions of rows for a multi-way join with a few aggregations, a row store has to work hard.
The usual answer is to stand up a separate analytical system, then build ETL pipelines to copy data into it.
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