Tag: ecosystem
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Solanica joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
We are pleased to welcome Solanica, the company driving the development of OpenEverest, as a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor.
OpenEverest is an open-source platform for deploying and managing databases on Kubernetes. Its recently added MariaDB support gives developers and platform teams another way to bring MariaDB into their infrastructure, with deployment, high availability, backups and recovery accessible through a common interface.
MariaDB in the Kubernetes ecosystem
For organisations running applications on Kubernetes, database support is an important part of their […]
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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 MariaDB, and visit the MariaDB booth for demos and discussions with our engineers.
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Say the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share
MariaDB and MySQL share history, tools, protocols and a large technical community. But compatibility does not mean identity—especially when reporting bugs. A MariaDB Connector/C issue submitted to the MySQL bug tracker offers a funny reminder to say the product’s actual name.
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Improving MariaDB support in open source projects
As part of MariaDB’s efforts in Adoption, we have been working on support of MariaDB in open source projects.
The open source projects we have been looking at range from well known, ready to use projects like WordPress or MediaWiki (that Wikipedia runs on), to under-the-hood solutions like ORMs that connect software with databases for countless other open source and private projects.
MariaDB is the de facto standard that many projects and users are running. As MariaDB diverges, matures and […]
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MariaDB & Ecosystem Fragmentation
We hear you, Kristian Köhntopp! Thank you for taking the time to articulate what many others are probably thinking.
For those of you to whom this sounds cryptic, let me share how I interpreted Kristian Köhntopp’s blog MySQL: Ecosystem fragmentation (https://blog.koehntopp.info/2020/10/28/mysql-ecosystem-fragmentation.html), published last week:
Kristian noted that the question “Which version of MySQL do you run on?” for a long time hasn’t been merely answered by a simple version number, since there are reasons to perceive MariaDB and Aurora to […]