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We’re delighted to welcome Releem as the newest Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation! Releem is a database performance management platform that helps teams ensure consistent and reliable database performance through continuous profiling, configuration tuning, and SQL query optimization. … Continue reading "New Silver Sponsor: Releem Boosts MariaDB Performance with Smarter Tuning and Optimization" The post New Silver Sponsor: Releem Boosts MariaDB Performance with Smarter Tuning and Optimization appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Personal opinion : Maria what ?One year ago exactly, i did post my first linkedin article (also available here on medium or here in french) with the goal of becoming a regular author on subjects such as architecture, data, databases et MariaDB in particular. A few days before, Alejandro Duarte was posting about some confence he attended and sspoke at as Developer advocate for MariaDB. While discussing the outcome of such talks, we came to the realisation MariaDB was well known within a restricted circle but widely ignored in the rest of the world, even amongst devs.All that despite MariaDB having replaced MySQL… Read more

Managing farms of MySQL servers under a replication environment is very efficient with the help of a MySQL orchestrator tool. This ensures a smooth transition happens when there is any ad hoc failover or a planned/graceful switchover comes into action. Several configuration parameters play a crucial role in controlling and influencing failover behavior. In this […]… Read more

This blog post describes three new fields to monitor replication lag added in MariaDB Community Server 11.8 LTS and MariaDB […]… Read more

MariaDB released a new Long Term Support version as Generally Available: 11.8. I always review MariaDB LTS versions once they’re GA, so it’s time to write a new review. Support and timeline MariaDB 11.8 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS). The first Generally Available release is 11.8.2, released on 4 June 2025. This branch will be supported til June 2028, unless the support is extended. The previous LTS branch was 11.4 (see my MariaDB 11.4 review), which will be supported til 29 May 2029. This means that support for LTS versions has been reduced to 3 years. All versions released… Read more

Vector databases have become essential for building intelligent applications. Since MariaDB Community Server version 11.7 and most recently in the MariaDB Community Server 11.8 LTS release, MariaDB has embraced this trend by introducing native vector store capabilities. While you could work with vectors using pure SQL, dedicated frameworks have made this process incredibly simple… Source… Read more

Personal opinion : Maxscale license changeI realize i never made a presentation of one of the most advanced database proxy for MariaDB/MySQL : MariaDB Maxscale apart from this short introduction to the war of the 3 proxys.Now is not really the time and i will make sure to write an extensive one in the coming weeks. There is still something to discuss around that today : its licensing.Some of you may remember in 2016 when Maxscale 2.0 has been released under BSL for the first time. Monty explained the reasoning behind such a change extensively on his blog, and he was a long time advocate… Read more

Personal opinion : the future of Galera ClusterAs you already know, MariaDB plc acquired Codership Oy, editor of the Galera clustering solution on 2025, June 1st.This acquisition makes a lot of sense given the tight integration of Galera into MariaDB server since MariaDB 10.0 in 2014. Galera Cluster brings distributed synchronous multi-master clustering to MariaDB, which differentiates it from other databases, be they proprietary like Oracle or open-source like PostgreSQL. Unlike Oracle RAC (which requires shared storage and Oracle’s expensive licensing) or PostgreSQL’s streaming replication (which is primarily master-slave), Galera provides true multi-master capability without shared storage dependencies, making MariaDB competitive with other… Read more

We continue our blog series on learning more about users of MariaDB. Searching LinkedIn for posts about MariaDB this morning we saw an impressive confident post about using MariaDB in a RAG solution named SemantiQ. … Continue reading "Can you do RAG with Full Text Search in MariaDB?" The post Can you do RAG with Full Text Search in MariaDB? appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.4.7-4, 10.6.22-18, and 10.5.29-23 are now available. These releases include new backported features. […]… Read more

This is my second attempt at an IO-bound Insert Benchmark results with a small server. The first attempt is here and has been deprecated because sloppy programming by me meant the benchmark client was creating too many connections and that hurt results in some cases for Postgres 18 beta1.There might be regressions from 17.5 to 18 beta1QPS decreases by ~5% and CPU increases by ~5% on the l.i2 (write-only) stepQPS decreases by 1.0 then performance improved over time. When it is < 1.0 then there are regressions. When it is 0.90 then I claim there is a 10% regression. The Q in… Read more

Scarf joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, bringing powerful analytics to help us understand and grow our open source community. Discover how this partnership supports transparency, adoption, and global collaboration. The post Scarf Joins as Gold Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

After 20 years on MySQL, Glarotech chose MariaDB for PepperShop. Learn what drove the switch and how they run a scalable eCommerce platform today. The post Why Swiss eCommerce Leader Glarotech Migrated from MySQL to MariaDB – and What’s Next for PepperShop appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

This is my second attempt at CPU-bound Insert Benchmark results with a small server. The first attempt is here and has been deprecated becau sloppy programming by me meant the benchmark client was creating too many connections and that hurt results in some cases for Postgres 18 beta1.tl;drPerformance between 17.5 and 18 beta1 is mostly similar18 beta1 might have small regressions from new CPU overheads on write-heavy stepsBuilds, configuration and hardwareI compiled Postgres from source using -O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer for versions  14.0, 14.18, 15.0, 15.13, 16.0, 16.9, 17.0, 17.5 and 18 beta1.The server is an ASUS ExpertCenter PN53 with and AMD Ryzen 7… Read more

Cybersec : MariaDB, round2While being an Open source database management system developped and maintained by a team of immensely skilled developpers, MariaDB (and MySQL) is not immune to mismanagement and/or administrator-induced security risks.A not well known feature of MariaDB is init_file, a nice little parameter that allows to have a set of SQL statement executed once at each server startup. While potent and very usefull, this is also a potential security breache, as anyone who can edit this file can add a sql statement creating an admin user for example or expand someone’s privileges beyond any need.Let’s examine how we can mitigate this risk… Read more