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We are delighted to announce that Mydbops has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor!
Mydbops is a trusted leader in open-source database consulting, empowering organizations worldwide to design, optimize, and scale their MySQL and MariaDB environments. Our dedication to operational excellence and community-driven innovation aligns seamlessly with the MariaDB Foundation’s mission to promote openness, adoption, and continuous advancement of MariaDB.
This partnership reinforces the importance of service providers and consultants in the MariaDB ecosystem and marks another step forward in our commitment to open collaboration.
Thank you, Mydbops, for your support and trust.
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Diegesis, the London-based business and technology consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has joined the non-profit MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor to ensure one of the world’s most popular database servers – that also powers Wikipedia – remains free of charge and accessible to all. The MariaDB Server is a general-purpose open-source Relational Database Management System (DBMS) that relies solely on funding from benefactors like Diegesis. Today’s announcement also strengthens Diegesis’ commitment to enabling organisations in the public and private sector to modernise and migrate their legacy systems to the latest technology frameworks without vendor lock-in, limits or licensing traps.
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Imagine hacking your way to $10,000 in prizes (sponsored by MariaDB plc) – and topping it off with an exclusive dinner in Finland with Monty Widenius, the legendary creator of MySQL and MariaDB. Sounds unreal? That’s exactly what’s at stake in the upcoming MariaDB-Python Hackathon.
Why Join?
This isn’t just another hackathon. It’s your chance to:
- 💡 Innovate with AI & Databases – Showcase MariaDB’s unique powers, from Vector Search for RAG/LLMs to Oracle compatibility and more.
- 🔌 Build Killer Integrations – Connect 1MariaDB to frameworks, ORMs, Jupyter notebooks, or any open-source project you love.
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The MariaDB Foundation is proud to welcome Virtuozzo as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing a shared commitment to building an open, sovereign, and innovation-driven digital future for Europe.
Virtuozzo is a pioneer in virtualization and cloud infrastructure software, with deep European roots and global reach. Their support of the MariaDB Foundation is not just a sponsorship — it’s a statement of strategic alignment between two organizations shaping the backbone of an independent European technology ecosystem.
This partnership brings together two essential layers of infrastructure — Virtuozzo powering the cloud and MariaDB powering the data.
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The Ford–Cadillac Parable
In 1902, Henry Ford’s second car company was taken over by investors and renamed Cadillac. The designs were his. The engineering was his. But the brand? That now belonged to someone else.
So Ford walked away and started fresh.
Years later, even as Ford cars became wildly successful, people kept asking:
“Are you the guy who builds Cadillacs?”
To which he had to answer—over and over again:
“No. I’m not building Cadillacs anymore.”
It took years before the public truly grasped the difference.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rumahweb, one of Indonesia’s most trusted and long-standing web hosting providers, has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor.
Founded in 2002, Rumahweb has built a reputation for reliability, innovation, and a strong commitment to customer support. With a wide range of offerings — including shared hosting, VPS, cloud hosting, and domain services — Rumahweb empowers individuals, SMEs, and large enterprises alike to succeed in the digital space. Backed by 24/7 professional technical assistance, they have become a pillar of Indonesia’s internet infrastructure.
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One of the standout features of Oracle PL/SQL is the associative array — a versatile and efficient in-memory data structure that developers rely on for fast temporary lookups, streamlined batch processing, and dynamic report generation.
With the MariaDB 12.1 preview release, we’re excited to announce that associative arrays have landed in MariaDB as part of our growing set of Oracle compatibility features. This milestone, tracked under MDEV-34319, brings Oracle-style associative arrays into the MariaDB procedural language — complete with native type declarations, variable construction, and method support.
Let’s explore what’s included, what’s different, and how this feature was implemented from the ground up.
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At the MariaDB Foundation, we’re constantly engaging with users, partners, and collaborators to understand how MariaDB fits into their infrastructure—and what we can do better. A recent conversation between our Executive Chairman Kaj Arnö and Renato Furter from Switch.ch, Switzerland’s national research and education network, revealed valuable insights into open source adoption, digital sovereignty, and collaboration across European academia.
From MySQL to MariaDB: Why Switch Made the Move
Switch has been a MariaDB user for years. Their journey began with MySQL, like many institutions in academia. But when Oracle’s roadmap grew increasingly opaque and development around MySQL 5.7 stagnated, the Switch team made a practical decision: migrate to MariaDB.
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