Planet MariaDB Server

On July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 reached end of support, and Microsoft’s own blog put it plainly: plan your next steps. For thousands of estates the next step is SQL Server 2025, generally available […]Read more

At 02:14 the p99 alert fires. Dashboards show the cluster is up, CPU looks unremarkable and every node is healthy. Yet checkout queries that took 8 ms now take 400. In a single-node database you […]Read more

TAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file. This file captures exactly what the run used — … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction” MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. … Continue reading “When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security” When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

I’ve encountered DBAs and ops engineers who shared war stories of running production long before automation and modern tooling went mainstream. Experiencing sudden primary faults during sleeping hours, getting paged, logging in to squint over trace logs that show replication lag on all replicas and working out which one is furthest ahead, promoting it, editing […] The post Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale appeared first on Severalnines.Read more

In a single-node PostgreSQL server, a slow query usually means a slow plan. In a distributed SQL database, a slow query usually means too many network round trips. That one difference changes almost every rule […]Read more

TAF: One File to Rule Them All In a one‑on‑one review of TAF with Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, he looked at me and said: “I want everything in one user file.” … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties” MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

September showed what an extensible MariaDB looks like in practice. A Magento report ran 63 times faster once its tables moved to the DuckDB storage engine, which now ships with MariaDB 13.0, Stable since 17 September. … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026” MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

How MinervaDB connects data strategy, governance and operations into one full-stack data strategy, from business outcomes and metrics to database-enforced governance and 24×7 operations. […]Read more

How MinervaDB delivers database reliability engineering across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and BigQuery. […]Read more

MariaDB Foundation welcomes Elestio as a Silver Sponsor, supporting the open-source project behind its managed MariaDB offering. Elestio provides managed MariaDB with automated backups, monitoring and updates, allowing users to choose their cloud provider, region and resources. … Continue reading “Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor” Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

AWS today announced the general availability of AMD-based R8a and M8a database instances for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors. R8a is a memory-optimized instance family available on both Aurora and RDS. M8a is a general-purpose instance family available on RDS.Read more

Why BFSI, FinTech, retail, airlines, telecom and media, ISVs, government and SaaS companies choose MinervaDB as their database infrastructure partner across every major engine and cloud. […]Read more

In performance testing, numbers alone rarely tell the full story. A benchmark result without context is just a result floating in space disconnected from the intent, and the conditions that produced it. … Continue reading “MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF” MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF appeared first on MariaDB.orgRead more

A reference MongoDB observability platform for 8.3: per-member exporters, FTDC archiving, a slow-operation dataset ranked by query shape in ClickHouse, and burn-rate SLO alerts. […]Read more