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”