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…
Welcome to this new series about extending MariaDB. This series covers the addition of a new data type using the Type_handler. The goal of the entire series is to create a new plugin data type MONEY to store and display…
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…