As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database. The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced…
Preview releases are among the clearest ways an open-source community can shape the future of a database before it becomes a production reality. They give users early access to new features, a chance to validate upgrade paths, and an opportunity…
Percona’s new 2026 benchmark report is interesting because it puts several MySQL-family releases on the same graphs and shares a public repository for the test harness. That openness is welcome. But after reading both the article and the published scripts,…
One of the things I really like about open source is that a project is never only about the software. Yes, code is important. Very important. But a project like MariaDB exists and grows because of people. People who contribute…
Before I share my takeaway from this MariaDB observability poll, I would like to thank all participants and highlight that these recent polls are very popular, and your participation makes us happy. That said, we recently asked the MariaDB community…
If you’ve been around the MariaDB community for a while, you can probably feel it already: things are moving in the right direction. And no, I’m not talking about one vanity metric, one lucky spike, or one noisy social post.…
As a former MySQL DBA, I am less familiar with some MariaDB details. Also, the evolution of MariaDB Server is ongoing, with many new features, data types, and syntax, and more… I decided then to create a new blog series…
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.0 series. MariaDB 13.0 is a preview rolling release, published on 23 March 2026, and it continues the work started in 12.3 while adding a solid set…
I am starting a new series on what makes MariaDB Server distinct from MySQL, highlighting innovations that make the difference. MariaDB 12.3 introduces a new binary log implementation that stores binlog events directly in InnoDB-managed tablespaces rather than in separate…
We recently asked the MariaDB community a simple question: Where do you run MariaDB most in production? The responses give a useful snapshot of how MariaDB is deployed today across our community: The big takeaway: MariaDB remains strongly infrastructure-aware The…
When dealing with queries in MariaDB, there are several approaches, such as the general query log, the slow query log, and the performance_schema. The general query log is not recommended as it doesn’t contain much valuable information and can use…
You may have noticed that MySQL Workbench has not been actively developed for a long time… You can see the number of open bugs. And the number of commits illustrates this too: In fact, Workbench has been put out of…