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Why I haven’t run my databases on Kubernetes
A few years ago, if there was a discussion on “Should we run databases on Kubernetes?”, there were more people saying no than yes. One of the common answers was,…
Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Part 3 – Hybrid Search, Percona Blog, and Widget Improvements
Here I write about what I changed after the first launch: hybrid search, filters and counts on the search page, the widget layout, indexer hardening, and the Percona Blog in…
Skipping Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.9 and 9.7.0
Upstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two high-severity CVE fixes. We’ve pulled those fixes into our next builds and are skipping the two versions we had already…
MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh
The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading “MariaDB…
Preparing Your Analytical Databases for Agents
Agents can query databases: this has always been the dream of many data people! Sure, SQL resembles English, so it makes it relatively easy to express your questions and get…
MariaDB Enterprise Server Q2 2026 Maintenance Releases
New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server: 11.8.8-5, 11.4.12-9, and 10.6.27-23 are now available. Download Now MariaDB Enterprise Server is an enhanced, hardened and secured version of MariaDB Community Server…
MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server
I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.” Good. But then you look a bit closer. Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings…
Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy
We often hear that open source is about people. People who contribute their time and, in a way, parts of their lives to work on software that is available for…
Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem. … Continue reading “Passbolt renews…
Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor. Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external…
MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies!
We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test…
Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE
This lesson should have been learned with the CREATE TABLE of death, but it is worth a refresh. Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE The reason I am…
MariaDB 13.1 preview available
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 will be a rolling release. … Continue reading “MariaDB 13.1 preview available” The…
CPU-bound sysbench on a large server: Postgres 12 to 19 beta1
This has results from sysbench on a small server with Postgres versions 12 through 19 beta1. Sysbench is run with high concurrency (40 connections) and a cached database. The purpose…
Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis
Tracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history. … Continue reading “Simple…