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MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine

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Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities.

Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off.

This is one of those contributions.

The platform team at Headout, a global platform that helps travelers discover and book curated real-life experiences, encountered a few inefficiencies in MariaDB Server around temporary tables and the HEAP engine. Instead of treating these as isolated local problems, they worked upstream. Arcadiy Ivanov, operating through Karellen, Inc.

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