Category: Ecosystem
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IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
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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Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform
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 […]
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Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor.
Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. Its flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, helps organizations manage database availability, disaster recovery and distributed deployments across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
The company has worked with open-source database technologies for more than two decades and brings extensive experience from demanding production environments across SaaS, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce and other industries.
“Continuent has a […]
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Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year.
Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. Both projects form part of a broader open-source ecosystem that enables businesses, public-sector organisations and individuals to build digital services without unnecessary dependence on proprietary platforms.
Over the past year, our collaboration has also developed through the Privacy-First Solution Stack, which brings together Nextcloud, Passbolt and […]
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MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server
I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”
Good.
But then you look a bit closer.
Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. Passwords are in browsers, in chat messages, sometimes in a document with a name like credentials-final-v3. Backups? “The provider handles that.” Maybe. Where is the data exactly? “In Europe, normally.” Who has access? That’s when the room becomes quiet.
I don’t call that a privacy […]
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MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sumit Srivastava
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 […]
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MariaDB Foundation at Oracle’s MySQL Contributor Summit: Ecosystems, Forks and Constructive Coexistence
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. […]
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Unleashing Innovation Through Plugins
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. https://mariadb.org/about/
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 […]