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MariaDB High Availability: Maximum Availability Solutions in MariaDB 12.3 LTS
MariaDB high availability reached a new baseline with MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, GA on 2026-05-29 as version 12.3.2. For the first time, a MariaDB LTS release ships parallel replication between…
Extending MariaDB with Native Aggregate Plugins: Laying the Groundwork for HyperLogLog
MariaDB already allows developers to add new Pluggable Data Types and scalar Plugin Functions. One missing piece has been Pluggable Aggregate Functions operating on PDTs. That matters for functionality such…
Redis 8.10 Performance and Reliability: What Actually Changed
Redis 8.10 performance and reliability: the short version Redis 8.10 performance and reliability: the three changes that alter how you size and operate a Redis fleet. The headline for Redis…
MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration
Overview While validating MariaDB RSS stability under stored procedure workloads, I ran into unexpected memory growth. The goal was straightforward: confirm that MariaDB was not leaking memory when running TPROC-C…
MariaDB Community Server 10.6.28 now available
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Community Server 10.6.28 maintenance release. This is the final release in the MariaDB 10.6 series. See the release notes…
Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine
Our first post showed MySQL 9.7 with one change: mark a table ENGINE=DuckDB and its analytical queries run in DuckDB instead of InnoDB. The question we kept getting after that…
MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE Improvements
JSON support in MariaDB has improved significantly over the years. We have functions to create JSON documents, extract values, modify objects, inspect arrays, compare documents, and even transform JSON into…
Percona for MongoDB: RHEL 10, Its Derivatives, and Debian 13 – On Both x86_64 and ARM
We’re happy to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) 8.0.28-12 extends platform support to RHEL 10 and its derivatives (Oracle Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, AlmaLinux 10, and other…
Making the PostgreSQL Documentation Even Better
While working on our project “PostgreSQL for Dolphins and Sea Lions,” I pored over the PostgreSQL documentation on replication. Since I’m not quite up to speed on this topic yet,…
Fractional Chief Data Officer: 7 Proven Real-Time Analytics Wins
A Fractional Chief Data Officer from MinervaDB gives an enterprise board-level data leadership — strategy, architecture, governance and operations — on a part-time, fixed-fee basis. When that mandate is pointed…
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor.
Auree is building a cloud-independent platform for deploying and operating highly available open source databases, including MariaDB, inside customers’ own cloud accounts. Its Bring Your Own Cloud model allows organisations…
MariaDB 12.3 LTS: Advances and Building Fault-Tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure at Internet Scale
MariaDB 12.3 is the current long-term support release of MariaDB Community Server. It reached Stable/GA on 28 May 2026 and is maintained until June 2029, making it the first LTS…
MySQL and MariaDB High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference (and Why It Matters)
High availability keeps MySQL and MariaDB applications running through routine local failures, while disaster recovery restores service after a site or regional outage. This article explains how RTO, RPO, distance,…
The open way of Percona Search for MongoDB
Percona Search for MongoDB is Percona’s downstream distribution of mongot, the search engine that provides MongoDB’s full-text and vector search capabilities. With this addition, you can power your applications with…
MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.4 and 3.4.7 now available
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.4, 3.4.7, 3.3.4, and 3.2.5 GA releases. Download Now MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.4 is a Stable (GA) release. Notable…