Category: Foundation
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Zencoder becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Zencoder has joined as a Silver Sponsor.
Zencoder describes itself as “a universal AI platform focused on integrating generative coding workflows into existing developer tools and infrastructure. Connect any CLI to any IDE, starting with Claude Code, Codex and Zen CLI, while leveraging Zencoder’s proprietary enterprise-grade features like multi-repo intelligence. The platform supports on-premise, hybrid, or cloud deployment, with air-gapped and zero-VPC options to maintain enterprise security. Through modular ‘Zen Agents’, Zencoder codifies […]
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BangPypers x MariaDB Python Hackathon – Winners Announced!
Last Saturday marked an exciting milestone: the announcement of the winners in our first large-scale MariaDB Python Hackathon, organised in collaboration with BangPypers, HackerEarth, and MariaDB plc. Over the past months, developers from across India have explored new ways to make MariaDB easier to use, more connected, and better integrated into today’s most important open-source ecosystems.
This post celebrates the outstanding contributions in both the Integration Track — projects that help MariaDB work seamlessly with other tools and frameworks – and […]
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How deep can a bug be?
Last year I filed a bug report MDEV-33603 on what a looked like a benign problem with an optimizer taking a different code path in a particular trivial looking test. Its benign looking nature lead to me not looking at it until last week. The “benign” bug as it turned out is a bug in an OpenSSL optimization on IBM POWER, which maybe not the lowest level of “How deep”, but its certainly a long way from the high level […]
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Welcoming Wolf Software Systems Ltd as a New Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
We are excited to announce that Wolf Software Systems Ltd has joined the MariaDB Foundation as a new Silver sponsor! Their support helps strengthen our shared mission of advancing open-source database technology, and we warmly welcome them into our community.
Who are Wolf Software Systems Ltd?
Our active intelligence platform (AIP) “IntelligentWolf” is designed for businesses that have outgrown rigid systems. While passive analytics tools like Power BI are read-only, Intelligentwolf connects your entire tech stack into a single layer […]
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This Month in MariaDB Foundation: September 2025
September was a month of big ideas, long-term thinking, and vibrant community energy for the MariaDB Foundation. Our Board of Directors met for what may well have been the most strategic session in Foundation history – and our community, in parallel, pushed the frontiers of innovation in AI, open source collaboration, and real-world adoption.
Let’s take a tour through the highlights — and yes, a few of these stories carried over into early October, simply because we had too much […]
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From Vision to Action: Strengthening the MariaDB Foundation Board – Welcome, Frank Karlitschek!
Strengthening the Board with industry leaders is a key goal for the MariaDB Foundation in 2025 – and beyond.
At the MariaDB Foundation, we believe that leadership in open source isn’t just about code — it’s about courage, community, and conviction. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that Frank Karlitschek, founder and CEO of Nextcloud, has joined the MariaDB Foundation Board.
This is more than a new appointment — it’s a signal of where we’re heading as a Foundation: towards […]
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When Oracle Drops the Ball: Why MariaDB is the Future of the MySQL World
The news has circulated quietly in industry corners, but the implications are far too significant to brush aside: Oracle seems to have ended the Open Source era of MySQL.
I am not a spokesperson for Oracle, yet the signs are unmistakable. Entire teams associated with MySQL at Oracle have been dissolved, spanning engineering, development and sales. On LinkedIn, I’ve received a wave of messages from former colleagues — both long-time MySQL veterans and those who joined Oracle years after MariaDB […]
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Passbolt becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is delighted to announce that Passbolt has joined as a Silver Sponsor, further strengthening the European open source ecosystem.Passbolt is the European open source platform for secure credential collaboration. It can be used for managing passwords, secrets, and privileged accesses. Passbolt is built for security-conscious tech teams while remaining usable by everyone. It adapts to a large variety of use cases, from IT and DevOps workflows to organization-wide credential management. It supports secure collaboration with granular access controls, […]