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…