MariaDB Adoption Index Archives

Even positive trends have hiccups. Last month we celebrated “onwards and upwards”. This month the adoption index took a bit of a knock. We also made a couple of minor updates to the index thanks to feedback from the community. This is all in the spirit of openness – with transparent numbers, we can together tackle challenges and work on the success of MariaDB.

Highlights in metrics

Metrics that rose considerably this month: MariaDB in Debian popcon, Github stars, mentions in Github Repo READMEs, Wikipedia article reads, and Reddit subscribers.

It is positive to see views of MariaDB articles on Wikipedia take a positive swing.

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Continue reading “Riding the Waves – the MariaDB adoption index in October 2025”

The MariaDB open source project keeps growing! The amount of unique external contributors to the MariaDB project is at an all time high, as well as Docker image downloads – just to mention two metrics from the 23 metrics that the MariaDB Adoption Index combines.

There is no single number to represent the success of an open source project, so we combined 23 weighted metrics to a monthly index. The index is as neutral as possible: no comparisons to other techs, and no normalization for macrotrends – just MariaDB numbers compared to the baseline of January 2024 to shed light on everything going on.

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Continue reading “MariaDB Onwards and Upwards in September 2025”

March was a busy month in the world of MariaDB!

Let’s explore the progress through the lens of the Six Goals for 2025, introduced in January.

Board Meeting 1/2025: New Executive Chairman, new CEO

But before we dive into that, let me briefly highlight developments from the two most recent Board Meetings. In the Report from the Board blog post about the late February meeting, I already noted a key organisational change:

I am transitioning my role to be Executive Chairman, providing the overall leadership vision for the transformation of the Foundation and expanding the Foundation’s presence and influence in the industry.

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Continue reading “This month in MariaDB Foundation: Mar 2025”

“The act of measuring disturbs the system and changes its state.” is a quote attributed to Werner Heisenberg. While I am uncertain about whether Heisenberg ever uttered those exact words, I am certain that the quote “What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t get managed” is a management adage that gets a lot of negative publicity, deservedly so.

Metrics Not Considered Harmful

Yet, metrics can be helpful. MariaDB Foundation is far from overmeasuring pointy-haired-boss numbers, and in February, we made an attempt at systematically creating a meaningful metric that is easy to calculate.

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Continue reading “This month in MariaDB Foundation: Feb 2025”