Category: Events

  • MariaDB Day Sat 1 Feb 2025 in Brussels

    MariaDB Day Brussels 2025

    We have the date, we have the place , we have the theme! So we ask you to save the date.

    Date: Saturday 1 Feb 2025 (10:00-17:00)

    Place: Brussels, SQ Lily-Rose, Avenue Arnaud Fraiteur 15-23, close to FOSDEM

    Theme: Vectors, RAG and all things new in MariaDB Server

    Registration: Please register here with Meetup

    With the Open Source community convening for FOSDEM, we have noted Brussels during the first weekend of February is a great time to meet, chat, and […]

  • Talk: The implementation of MariaDB parallel replication

    On November 6 2024 I presented a talk with the title: “The implementation of MariaDB parallel replication” at a local TeqHub meetup in Copenhagen.

    In the talk I first presented how MariaDB replication works overall. I then described the central idea of optimistic parallel replication. Finally I described three details of the implementation: transaction scheduling; conflict detection; and efficient commit ordering. Here are the slides for the presentation.

    I was very impressed by the level of the engagement of the […]

  • MariaDB Server turns fifteen!

    Fifteen years ago, Internet Explorer made up about two-thirds of all browsers, Firefox the majority of the rest, while a newly-released browser called Chrome was starting to appear in the rankings.

    Fifteen years ago, iPhone OS overtook Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone market share, but still trailed the giants of Blackberry’s RIM and Symbian, used by market leader Nokia, while Google’s new Android ecosystem was just starting to show signs of momentum.

    And in the database world, as Oracle moved […]

  • Announcing the first MariaDB Hackathon – in India!

    Update 2024-10-15: The event has been cancelled in favour of something better. Please see the end of this post.

    On the 24th – 25th October 2024 we will be hosting our first-ever Hackathon as part of our larger MariaDB Foundation presence around Open Source India.

    What is a Hackathon?

    If you have never done one before, it is basically a fun and challenging technology event where the goal is to create new things. Attendees are split into small teams of […]

  • MariaDB ServerFest Berlin 17 Sep 2024

    Berlin Server Fest 2024

    Come join us in Berlin, on Tue 17 Sep 2024! It’s time for our next MariaDB Server Fest, which we invite you to enjoy in person or virtually.

    MariaDB Server Fests are the events where MariaDB Foundation and friends celebrate and share the latest new happenings in the world of MariaDB Server. And Berlin is a great place to be – to work in, to travel to, to meet in.

    Welcome to Berlin!

    The physical event is hosted by MariaDB Foundation’s […]

  • Attending SuseCon24

    Last week MariaDB was present at SuseCon, both MariaDB Foundation as well as representatives from MariaDB Plc. The MariaDB Foundation has never attended SuseCon in the past, so this was an exciting new event for us. I’ll give you my view on the event and why I think it is a great event for the Open Source Software community.

    The conference motto – #choice

    SUSE’s focus is not on prescribing a particular technology, rather empowering its users to make the […]

  • MariaDB Vector at Intel Vision – AI Everywhere

    Christoph Schell interviewing Thomas Bach

    AI was everywhere at Intel Vision this week in London. Nearly every keynote and breakout presentation was centred around AI. I had the honour of being interviewed by Intel’s jovial Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell, who is just about as stereotypically German as his former neighbour from Stuttgart Jürgen Klopp (whom he referenced on-stage), namely: not at all.

    Staying German but perhaps a tad less Klopp-like, Thomas Bach was one of many interviewed on-stage by Christoph. The president of the […]

  • MariaDB Wins at the CloudFest Hackathon

    OK, MariaDB Server didn’t specifically win, but a project around the MariaDB Catalogs feature won and the team behind it was led by me. In this post, I shall dig into what the CloudFest Hackathon is, what we did there and why it is a big deal.

    CloudFest and the Hackathon

    CloudFest is an event that happens every year in Europa Park, which is normally an amusement park, located in Rust, Germany. It is a fantastic web hosting and cloud […]