You may have recently seen that MariaDB Server supports the DuckDB Storage Engine [1][2]. And that’s great. After my first look at it, Roman created those 3 MDEVs with my suggestions: And he started working on it! If we also…
SQLite is fantastic. Really. For a developer starting a new project, it is difficult to find something easier: no server to install, no network configuration, no user management, no backup strategy to define on day one. You create a file,…
When people hear “online schema change” in the MySQL and MariaDB world, many immediately think about pt-online-schema-change. And for good reasons: for years, changing a large table in production was one of those tasks that could ruin your day. Recently,…
MariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things. Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. And some are about making security and access control easier to…
MariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more. Today, MariaDB Server plugins are typically developed in C or…