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…