Category: Community
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FOSDEM 2027 – The M-Ecosystem Devroom: Call for Participation
Different projects. Shared roots. One M-Ecosystem.
We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM 2027, taking place on Sunday, January 31, 2027, in Brussels, Belgium.
Following the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, we are opening a new chapter that brings together an even broader community of developers, contributors, maintainers, DBAs, and open-source enthusiasts.
Whether you’re working on MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, VillageSQL, AliSQL, or any of the tools, connectors, […]
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Deploying MariaDB and WordPress on Kamatera
When deploying MariaDB in the cloud, controlling the infrastructure can be as important as controlling the database itself.
Plenty of cloud providers offer their own approaches to virtual machines, networking, storage, and managed services. One of them is Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider that recently joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor.
Kamatera (see in ecohub) offers customizable cloud servers across more than 20 data center locations worldwide. Instead of choosing from a limited set of predefined VM […]
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The MariaDB Plugin API has Doxygen Documentation Now!
Developing plugins is one of the ways we really encourage to extend MariaDB Server’s capabilities. However, understanding the available APIs has often required developers to explore header files, source code, and existing plugin implementations.To make this easier, we now have a new, Doxygen-generated MariaDB Server Plugin API reference, available directly in the MariaDB documentation.If you’ve been following recent commits to the MariaDB Server repository, you may already have noticed some of the work behind this initiative. I’d like to present […]
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What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I built the type_hll plugin, which adds HyperLogLog sketches to MariaDB, and I use it here to answer that question.
The answer is mostly yes. One shared library, type_hll.so, registers the HLL data type and eight functions. You enable all of it with one statement:
The “mostly” is important. The HLL […]
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The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World
Jonathan Miller has spent 27 years in database performance testing. He talks about TAF, the open source Test Automation Framework that benchmarks MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL side by side, configuration provenance, and how to prove your patch made MariaDB faster.
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Bagisto MariaDB Vector Semantic Search
I’m always interested to see how MariaDB Vector is being used in real applications, beyond the usual demos and simple similarity-search examples.
In this guest post, the team behind Bagisto takes a very practical look at semantic search for e-commerce using MariaDB Vector. What I particularly like is that they don’t stop at showing it works: they test indexing, query latency, concurrency, filtering, recall, and the impact of tuning the vector cache, the InnoDB buffer pool, and the HNSW index […]
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Community Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online
Open source runs on people. Not only the engineers who commit code, but everyone who builds tools, answers questions, writes tutorials and shows up when help is needed. Slava Rozhnev, creator of SQLtest.online, is one of those people for MariaDB. He has been creating SQL quizzes with the MariaDB Foundation for a while now, and this post is our way of saying thank you.
A collaboration that keeps growing
Slava’s work with the Foundation goes back further than this year’s […]
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Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively
If your Laravel application runs on MariaDB, you can add semantic search to it without a second database, an external vector service or an extra package. Since Laravel 13.28, vector columns, vector indexes and similarity queries work on MariaDB out of the box. A large part of that work came from community contributors, including Mohamed Touhami Rhaima.
Until this summer, Laravel’s built-in vector search was a PostgreSQL feature: it assumed pgvector. Laravel’s AI SDK documentation now reads: “Vector queries are currently supported on […]