Category: Community
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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 […]
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Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path
I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way.
Pradip Shah from luroConnect recently documented how his team migrated a 500+ GB production MariaDB database from Amazon RDS to self-managed MariaDB on EC2.
Moving from RDS to EC2 is often expected to bring significant cost savings because you are moving from a fully managed database service to […]
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When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security
You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it.
Over the last months, the MariaDB project has experienced something we had never seen before: a very large increase in security reports. And when I say large, look at this graph:
For years, we received a few security reports every quarter. Sometimes 3, sometimes 6, 11… the highest in the graph was 16.
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“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova
At Percona Live Amsterdam I caught up with Sveta Smirnova, a world-renowned MySQL expert, author of “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, and a frequent speaker at events from Oracle OpenWorld and FOSDEM to HighLoad. After decades as a support engineer, she now works as Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona, where she owns the bug prioritization process, develops tools for Percona’s services teams, and maintains Percona Toolkit. We talked about how AI has changed support work, what makes […]
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The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam
Last week I spent a few days in Amsterdam at Percona Live. It was the first Percona Live in Europe since before the pandemic, and you could feel it in the room: a slightly disbelieving happiness at simply being together again. Peter Zaitsev put it well when we sat down afterwards — nobody was quite sure what to expect, and it turned out to be a great event precisely because everyone had missed this.
I have been around since the […]