Category Archives: ecosystem
Interview with Sumit Srivastava, nominated in the Adoption & Industry Impact category.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Sumit Srivastava, SVP Business Development & Products at Tayana, a Bangalore-based telecom software company. Sumit was nominated for championing MariaDB adoption in the telecommunications industry and its demonstration of open-source database delivering performance, scalability, and business impact in mission-critical systems. Like me, Sumit sits between technical and business — “the business people think I’m technical, and the technical people think I’m business,” as he put it. It made a lively conversation.
The Interview
Kaj: Sumit, Congratulations on your nomination.
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Last week, Oracle invited MariaDB Foundation to give a presentation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit 2026. I had the opportunity to participate remotely and speak about MariaDB’s role within the broader MySQL ecosystem.
First of all, I would like to thank Heather VanCura, VP Community Engagement at Oracle, and Jason Wilcox, SVP Data Services at Oracle, for the invitation and for creating a space where these discussions could happen openly and constructively.
The presentation itself is available here on YouTube. At just over 17 minutes, it is reasonably compact viewing for anyone interested in the current state — and possible future direction — of the MySQL ecosystem.
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One of the corner stones in MariaDB Foundation’s mission is:
We strive to increase adoption by users and across use cases, platforms and means of deployment.
MariaDB Server plugins are definitely a prime “means of deployment” for server features. But a relatively neglected one so far. They have been around for many years. But, somehow, they have escaped the user’s focus. Why that happened is a very interesting topic. And one that I’d definitely like to hear your opinion on!
Which brings me to my main topic: How do we all change that?
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Earlier this month, I had a half-hour chat with Kellyn Gorman, a Database and AI Advocate and Engineer at Redgate. The UK software company is known for database DevOps and database management tools most databases – and since 2024 as the owner of DB-Engines popularity Ranking of database management systems.
The chat was an intellectual pleasure, to say the least. Kellyn is outstandingly well informed on databases, with a background starting in Oracle, spanning most databases as a DBA and industry analyst, and by now using MariaDB for about fifteen years, almost since its inception.
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I came across an excellent paper by the Linux Foundation. In it I find solid economical evidence for a very fundamental idea: contributions are the life-blood of an open source project.
Contributions in the broader sense (code, documentation, quality assurance, marketing, education, financial support) are central to every project. Open source or not. Giving users what they need and want is what makes any project appealing. It’s just that with open source, the cost to procuring these is not that directly attached to the actual use. So, there is a gap to cross between passive use and active participation.
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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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