Category Archives: Ecosystem
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor.
Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers and organisations control over where and how they run their applications. That flexibility makes it a natural environment for open-source technologies such as MariaDB, which users can deploy, configure and scale according to their own technical and geographic requirements.
“MariaDB belongs wherever developers choose to build and run their applications,” said Anna Widenius, CEO of MariaDB Foundation. “That requires strong open-source technology and accessible infrastructure around the world.
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PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules, originated in Solaris and became common place in all Linux, BSDs, and AIX, HP-UX and macOS. MariaDB has had PAM support as an option since MariaDB 5.2.10 becoming stable in 10.0.11. So if this is all old and boring why reconsider it? The environment in which Linux operates with PAM has changed in the last 15 years.
MariaDB’s PAM plugin version 1 (as its become known) has a restriction, because the pam module loaded was loaded into the mariadbd executable, it was subject to the restricted permissions, normally just the user, that mariadbd runs.
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MariaDB Foundation is delighted to welcome Seravo as a Silver Sponsor, turning a long-standing relationship in the open-source ecosystem into formal support for the future of MariaDB.
Seravo is a Finland-based specialist in premium hosting and upkeep for WordPress and WooCommerce. Open source sits at the heart of its technology stack and its company culture, and MariaDB has been part of that story for many years.
MariaDB behind the WordPress ecosystem
For hosting providers, databases are not an abstract technology choice. They sit underneath millions of page loads, online transactions, content updates and applications that people depend on every day.
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We are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.
Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. Its technology helps organisations move data across database systems and keep data fresh between operational systems, analytics platforms, and application environments.
For MariaDB users, this matters because data movement is often part of real-world database adoption. Organisations do not choose databases in isolation. They need practical ways to migrate, replicate, modernise, integrate, and operate across mixed environments. Wirekite supports MariaDB as both a source and target database, helping make MariaDB easier to include in broader data architectures.
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Global cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDB
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers.
ScalaHosting provides managed cloud VPS, web hosting and high-availability hosting services to customers around the world. Its platforms support MariaDB as a database option for websites, applications and online businesses, giving developers and organisations access to open-source database technology within professionally managed hosting environments.
Through its Gold sponsorship, ScalaHosting is investing in the independent, community-led development and long-term continuity of MariaDB Server.
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The Queen of Sheba did not travel lightly.
She arrived in Jerusalem with difficult questions, a large caravan, camels carrying spices, and an impressive quantity of gold. She had heard stories about Solomon’s wisdom and the prosperity of his kingdom, and she came to examine it for herself. The main methodological difference between us is that she did not send a Calendly link first.
After seeing the court, the people, the organisation and everything that had been built, she admitted that the reports had failed to capture its true scale:
“Not even half was told me.”
The story does not tell whether she arrived on a high horse.
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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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