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MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release
MariaDB Foundation’s Performance Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release represents the biggest changes to the framework since its creation. This release reshapes how we organize, run, and report database workloads…
Open FIPS Build, Vectors, and Binlog Server: Marco Tusa at Percona Live
This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in the server, and…
Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor. Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers…
MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.3.2 and 1.2.4 now available
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.3.2 and 1.2.4 releases. Download Now MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.3.2 is a Stable (GA) release. Notable items in this…
TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: the Tides Are Moving Fast
A few months ago, I wrote about my first experiments with TideSQL, the MariaDB storage engine powered by TidesDB. At that time, getting started meant building the TidesDB library, adding…
Why is Naomi Cannon bashing MariaDB?
10 days ago, an article by Naomi Cannon on Reddit caught my attention; it included a link to the full article on Medium. As I read through the article, I…
DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(): Vector Similarity in Percona Server for MySQL 9.7
TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metrics). This is the compute primitive you need to rank or…
“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova
At Percona Live Amsterdam I caught up with Sveta Smirnova, a world-renowned MySQL expert, author of “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, and a frequent speaker at events from…
Galera Cluster Remains An Integral Part of MariaDB Server
As we reach the final release of the MySQL version of Galera Cluster, we want to provide clarity around the long-term options for Galera Cluster users. In May 2025, MariaDB…
The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam
Last week I spent a few days in Amsterdam at Percona Live. It was the first Percona Live in Europe since before the pandemic, and you could feel it in…
Evaluating LLM models for DBA tasks
Evaluating LLM Models for DBA Tasks Large language models are increasingly capable of performing practical systems-administration tasks. I wanted to understand how well they could handle something more specialized:…
Group Replication Beyond a Single Cluster: DC-DR with Percona (PS MySQL) Operator
A while ago, we discussed the cross-site replication feature of the Percona PXC operator. Recently, a similar cross-site replication feature was introduced in the Percona (PS MySQL) operator v1.2.0, a…
MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable
MariaDB Server 13.0 is now Stable! The 13.0 series started its journey in March 2026 with the Preview. It then progressed through the Release Candidate phase and is now ready…
Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory
A few thousand gcache.page.* files in a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) data directory is not something you see every day. We came across a case where these files had been…
On JSONPath in MariaDB and MySQL
JSONPath is a part of SQL Standard. MySQL and MariaDB support a subset of it: “lax mode” only, no support for predicates, etc. But even the lax mode implementation has…