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MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821
As a DBA, there are some surprises I enjoy. Discovering a useful feature is one of them. Discovering that an application behaves differently after a maintenance update is considerably further…
MySQL 26.7 and 9.7 LTS: 7 Powerful Features for Performance, Scalability and High Availability
MySQL 26.7 is the first release Oracle has shipped under calendar versioning, and it landed on 28 July 2026 together with MySQL 9.7.2 LTS and MySQL 8.4.11 LTS. Most of…
MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.2 now available
MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.4.2 GA release. Download Now MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.4.2 is a Stable (GA) release. Notable items in this release…
Mongorewind: Rewind Your MongoDB Test Data Without Restoring a Backup
Mongorewind: Rewind Your MongoDB Test Data Without Restoring a Backup One day, my friend Martín told me about a problem he and his team were dealing with. Every time they…
On how MySQL implements JSON ARRAY indexing
Me and Yuchen Pei have been studying how JSON ARRAY indexing is done in MySQL. The details are posted here: MDEV-40822. Yuchen has discovered cases where using ARRAY index for…
OpenID Connect Authentication for MySQL, Now Fully Open Source
Percona Server for MySQL now ships with a fully open source OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication plugin, available starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.11-11 and 9.7.2-2 (not yet released as…
MariaDB/MySQL Environment MyEnv 3.0.1 has been released
FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 3.0.1 of its popular MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL multi-instance environment MyEnv. The new MyEnv can be downloaded here.…
MariaDB 12.3 InnoDB-Accelerated Binary Logging: Delivering 1.50x Higher Throughput
In modern high-performance database infrastructure, the binary log (Binlog) is both a lifesaver and a well-known architectural bottleneck. While critical for replication, point-in-time recovery, and data auditing, writing sequentially to…
MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026
August belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. … Continue reading…
Rotating Expiring X.509 Certificates in Percona Server for MongoDB with Minimal Service Interruption
Expired TLS certificates can prevent new client connections and, when X.509 is used for Percona Server for MongoDB internal authentication, also prevent members of a replica set or sharded cluster…
MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community
MariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam 2026! Join us for sessions on server plugins, protocol security and ecosystem building, hear independent MariaDB experiences, meet Percona’s new General Manager for…
Building Useful Community Software with MongoDB Using AI Agents
When activity spreads across GitHub, the forum, and content, real contribution is easy to lose in the noise. A community program only works when people trust the numbers behind the…
Benchmarking vector indexes
Nearly every database has vector search now, and every one of them has a blog post with a big number in it. Almost none of those numbers can be checked,…
Performance Progression of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4
1. Purpose and scope This performance investigation aims to look into the read/write performance of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 and how it changed between versions released in 2026: 8.4.8-8…
DuckDB Speed on MySQL with dbtrail, Without a New Storage Engine
Two recent posts on the Percona blog caught my attention. In Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine and The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB, Evgeniy Patlan wired…