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What’s New in MariaDB Enterprise Server 12.3?
MariaDB Enterprise Server is a core component of our flagship product MariaDB Enterprise Platform, delivering a hardened, production-grade edition of MariaDB Community Server. MariaDB Enterprise Server is enhanced with specific…
WooCommerce Analytics with DuckDB
MySQL and DuckDB Unlike row-oriented databases, which store data for a single record sequentially on disk, favoring single-row lookups, columnar databases store all the values from a column contiguously in…
MariaDB Enterprise Server 12.3 LTS: About 4x More OLTP Throughput than 10.6
Welcome back! For those of us at MariaDB, the 10.6 scaling story is familiar territory (the throughput curve that climbs nicely to ~88 threads and then flattens, no matter how…
Agents Are the Database’s Newest Customer: AI in MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2027
Almost every application we use today, from the banking app on our phones to the order screen at the coffee shop, was built on a simple bargain with the database…
Introducing MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2027: one foundation for the agentic enterprise
Every enterprise is racing to put AI agents to work. But an agent is only as trustworthy as the data it acts on, and in most enterprises that data is…
Why Webhook Deduplication Isn’t Enough
Let’s say you’re processing events from an API into your CRM. An event comes in and tells you that a particular contact is a Director at a company. So you…
Deploying MariaDB and WordPress on Kamatera
When deploying MariaDB in the cloud, controlling the infrastructure can be as important as controlling the database itself. Plenty of cloud providers offer their own approaches to virtual machines, networking,…
luroConnect joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome luroConnect as a Silver Sponsor, bringing practical experience in running MariaDB for Magento and Adobe Commerce merchants to our sponsor community. luroConnect provides managed…
The MariaDB Plugin API has Doxygen Documentation Now!
Developing plugins is one of the ways we really encourage to extend MariaDB Server’s capabilities. However, understanding the available APIs has often required developers to explore header files, source code,…
A New KMIP Library in C++, and the Only Free One
Percona has open sourced kmipclient, a new KMIP library in C++ for applications that need to talk to a key management system over a standard protocol instead of a single…
MariaDB Performance Claim : Technically Correct, but Misleading
A recent post on the MariaDB Foundation Blog has the impressive title How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5. …
New book – SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers
I present my new book about SQL, MariaDB, and everything you need to take an application to production.
MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026
InnoDB about 3x faster on in-memory workloads, the FOSDEM 2027 M-ecosystem devroom call for papers, parallel query execution, our first India meetup and 17 years of MariaDB Server. MariaDB Foundation…
What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case
Can a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I…
Multi-Node Unused Index Verification
Every MySQL schema that’s been around for a few years collects indexes nobody remembers adding. Some were for a report that was retired. Some came from an ORM migration. A…