MariaDB news and milestones

LibreDB Studio is an open source, web-based SQL IDE that runs next to the database as a container. It manages MariaDB through the MySQL protocol, along with other relational, doc…

High availability and disaster recovery are critical for cloud databases, but not all HA architectures deliver the same level of resilience when failures occur. DBTA recently hel…

Magento normally uses InnoDB for orders, order items, invoices, and other transactional data. However, analytical reports have another workload. I wanted to check whether DuckDB…

TideSQL 5.0.0 arrives as a MariaDB storage engine. A sysbench run on MariaDB 13.1.0 sees it beat InnoDB on nine of ten OLTP workloads, from 4x to 60x.

This work started from a conversation with Monty Widenius at Meet Magento Czech in August. We discussed possible ways to improve the scalability of the InnoDB B+Tree, especially…

From AI assistants and customer-facing analytics to operational intelligence platforms and real-time decisioning systems, modern data applications are creating new opportunities…

MariaDB CEO Rohit de Souza says AI agents are driving demand for curated open source as enterprises seek security and accountability without vendor lock-in.

By Adam Luciano, Vice President of Product Management, MariaDB plc.

How hybrid search works and why it's better than plain vector search in RAG architectures that require high-quality data retrievers.

An early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB - columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables. The problem MariaDB's InnoDB is excelle…

RAG pipelines are getting more and more popular with vector search at the core. However, vector search might not be just enough for high-quality retrieval.

The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, the latest Long Term Support release of MariaDB Server.

PGO build TPC-C analysis for MariaDB v11.8.6 with TideSQL.

TPC-C analysis with glibc, jemalloc, mimalloc, tcmalloc on TideSQL & InnoDB in MariaDB v11.8.6

We kept seeing random database freezes on Frappe Cloud and couldn't trace them due to missing metrics. This post shows how a hidden I/O-heavy query caused it and how we fixed it.

Jepsen's analysis of MySQL 8.0.34 walked through a set of concurrency and isolation anomalies in InnoDB. MariaDB, which inherits the same codebase, took the report seriously and…

Acquisition creates industry's first AI-Ready Operating Platform, unifying transactions, analytics and in-memory speed to eliminate infrastructure fragmentation.

Not long ago, building even a simple internal application meant waiting for engineering capacity and hoping the idea survived long enough to beprioritised.

The Yocto recipe gives GPL as the license of MariaDB. The Qt Sql library implements its MySQL driver with MariaDB. Hence, it should be under GPL.

MariaDB agrees to acquire GridGain to combine relational database with in-memory computing, targeting the 'AI latency gap' in agentic applications.

The company plans to integrate GridGain's in-memory computing tech to deliver sub-millisecond performance for operational, transactional, and AI applications.

Strategic acquisition unites MariaDB's mission-critical relational database with GridGain's extreme in-memory speed to power the next generation of AI applications.

Relational database developer MariaDB is acquiring in-memory computing technology developer Gridgain to improve database performance for AI and agentic applications.

Last year I shared many posts documenting MariaDB performance for vector search using ann-benchmarks . Performance was great in MariaDB 11 a...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Community Server 11.8.6, 11.4.10, 10.11.16, and 10.6.25 maintenance releases.

In this blog, explore the new MariaDB Cloud BYOA deployment model for existing cloud subscriptions. See how to gain 100% data sovereignty while MariaDB handles all operations.

New offering, MariaDB Exa (Powered by Exasol), delivers real-time insights from operational to petabyte-scale AI data MILPITAS, Calif.

MariaDB buys back SkySQL after spinning out the database vendor in 2023 to boost agentic AI capabilities.

MariaDB has recently released MariaDB Community Server 11.8 as generally available, its yearly long-term support (LTS) release for 2025. The new release introduces integrated vec…

Learn what's new in the recently released MariaDB Community Server 11.8 LTS release and tech preview release of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2026.

Acquisition enables deeper integration of synchronous replication technology into MariaDB Enterprise Platform for high availability and scalability.

SkySQL, which spun out of MariaDB in 2023, has secured its first funding as it looks to bring 'conversational AI to databases'.

MariaDB's short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is bought outright by K1

Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB's mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth.

Poor financial health has taken a heavy toll on MariaDB PLC and shaken its customer base. An acquisition might not be enough to reverse the damage, experts said.

The impact of Java 21s virtual threads on the performance of MariaDB database exchanges.