Planet MariaDB Server

MariaDB Foundation welcomes Frappe as a Silver Sponsor. Frappe builds open-source software for running organisations, including ERPNext, Frappe HR and Frappe CRM. Its applications are built on Frappe Framework, where MariaDB is the default database. … Continue reading “Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor” Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework. TAF provides the structure — … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF).” MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF). appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C++ 1.1.9 and 1.0.8 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.10 and 3.1.24. […]Read more

I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way. … Continue reading “Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path” Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) A new version of Community MySQL Server July release contains two versions 26.7.0 and 9.7.2. It is an important milestone because it finally brings a Thread Pooling feature to the community. The official MySQL Server Thread Pool plugin existed for a long time, but was available … Continued The post Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) appeared first on Percona.Read more

The cloud console says Available. The dashboard is green. The provider’s status page has not had an incident in months. And yet the monthly invoice has doubled, a restore that “should have worked” did not, […]Read more

On July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 reached end of support, and Microsoft’s own blog put it plainly: plan your next steps. For thousands of estates the next step is SQL Server 2025, generally available […]Read more

At 02:14 the p99 alert fires. Dashboards show the cluster is up, CPU looks unremarkable and every node is healthy. Yet checkout queries that took 8 ms now take 400. In a single-node database you […]Read more

TAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file. This file captures exactly what the run used — … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction” MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. … Continue reading “When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security” When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

I’ve encountered DBAs and ops engineers who shared war stories of running production long before automation and modern tooling went mainstream. Experiencing sudden primary faults during sleeping hours, getting paged, logging in to squint over trace logs that show replication lag on all replicas and working out which one is furthest ahead, promoting it, editing […] The post Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale appeared first on Severalnines.Read more

In a single-node PostgreSQL server, a slow query usually means a slow plan. In a distributed SQL database, a slow query usually means too many network round trips. That one difference changes almost every rule […]Read more

TAF: One File to Rule Them All In a one‑on‑one review of TAF with Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, he looked at me and said: “I want everything in one user file.” … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties” MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

September showed what an extensible MariaDB looks like in practice. A Magento report ran 63 times faster once its tables moved to the DuckDB storage engine, which now ships with MariaDB 13.0, Stable since 17 September. … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026” MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

How MinervaDB connects data strategy, governance and operations into one full-stack data strategy, from business outcomes and metrics to database-enforced governance and 24×7 operations. […]Read more