Tag: open source
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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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Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem.
Passbolt is an open-source password manager designed for teams, with a strong focus on security, privacy, and user control. Its continued support reflects a shared commitment to building practical, trustworthy open-source infrastructure that organizations can deploy and operate with confidence.
Building on the Privacy-First Stack
During the first year of collaboration, Passbolt became part of […]
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Drupal recommends MariaDB
MariaDB is now clearly listed as the recommended database in Drupal’s official documentation. Following community discussion on Drupal.org, the Database server requirements now lists MariaDB first, and identifies it as the recommended database for Drupal 10, 11, and 12. Drupal is a major open source content management system—a flexible platform used by a substantial share of websites globally.
We’re glad to see this. Recognition matters because MariaDB is often used but documented as MySQL, going unnoticed under the hood—and when […]
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QUAPE Joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
We’re pleased to welcome QUAPE as a Silver Sponsor. Their focus on high-performance infrastructure supports the Foundation’s work on the MariaDB buildbot and our commitment to open, dependable database innovation.
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Mirror, Mirror on DB-Engines: The MariaDB Story
DB-Engines has become one of the most visible indicators of database popularity, capturing how the world talks about MariaDB. This post explores what the rankings truly measure and how visibility, community engagement, and education shape MariaDB’s position. It highlights recent innovations such as native vector search and explains how MariaDB’s governance model safeguards long-term openness. As universities adopt MariaDB and developers name it more explicitly in their profiles, the global conversation continues to shift. DB-Engines becomes not just a ranking,…
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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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FOSDEM 2021: Remote energy
You can take FOSDEM out of Brussels, but you cannot take the Brussels out of FOSDEM. Meeting virtually is different, but FOSDEM once again succeeded in invigorating spirits and building bonds between developers.
Picture on top: myself “at FOSDEM” 2021. Missing the crowds, but still getting interaction!
Presentations now live on YouTube
The MariaDB presenters, the MariaDB Devroom organising committee and the team at MariaDB Foundation put considerable effort into all MariaDB talks at FOSDEM. The 24 MariaDB related talks […]
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MariaDB Foundation Board welcomes new members
2017 has been very successful for the entire MariaDB ecosystem. There have been great strides on all fronts including adoption, funding, collaboration, products, services and of course, in the development and maintenance of the MariaDB Server code itself.
We are also proud to announce that this is also reflected in the MariaDB Foundation’s board, which saw several new members elected to it in 2017. In June 2017 the board elected 3 new members: Xiaobin Lin from Alibaba Cloud, Todd Boyd […]