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MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction
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 —…
When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security
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…
Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale
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,…
YugabyteDB Performance Tuning: 15 Powerful, Proven Tips
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…
MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties
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…
MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026
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…
Full-Stack Data Strategy: 3 Proven Layers From MinervaDB
Most organisations have a data strategy document, a governance policy and an operations team. Few have them connected. A full-stack data strategy from MinervaDB joins the three: business outcomes are…
Database Reliability Engineering: 6 Proven Steps MinervaDB Runs on Every Engine
Database reliability engineering is how we run data platforms at MinervaDB: service level objectives instead of gut feel, error budgets instead of endless change freezes, and automation instead of heroics.…
Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Elestio as a Silver Sponsor, supporting the open-source project behind its managed MariaDB offering. Elestio provides managed MariaDB with automated backups, monitoring and updates, allowing users to…
AWS and AMD bring 5th generation AMD EPYC processors to Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
AWS today announced the general availability of AMD-based R8a and M8a database instances for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors. R8a is a memory-optimized…
Database Infrastructure Partner: 7 Proven Industry Lessons
Banks, retailers, airlines, telecom operators, software vendors, public-sector agencies and SaaS companies look different from the outside. Underneath, they share one uncomfortable fact: when the data tier stops, the business…
MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF
In performance testing, numbers alone rarely tell the full story. A benchmark result without context is just a result floating in space disconnected from the intent, and the conditions that…
MongoDB Observability: A Complete 4-Stage Monitoring Platform for MongoDB 8.3
MongoDB observability on the current self-managed release, MongoDB 8.3 (8.3.11 shipped on 2026-09-11), no longer suffers from a shortage of signals. The server now reports how its Cost-Based Ranker chose…
MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11, and 3.3.21 now available
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11, and 3.3.21. Download Now Notable items: Notable items: See the release notes and changelogs for more details and…
When pt-online-schema-change “where” Meets Galera: Understanding Chunk Auto-Resize and Flow Control
Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) has long been the preferred solution for performing online schema changes with minimal downtime. Its chunk-based copy algorithm is designed to adapt dynamically to the workload,…