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What’s new in MariaDB Connector/J 4.0
MariaDB Connector/J 4.0.0 is now generally available. Connector/J is the JDBC driver for MariaDB Community Server and MariaDB Enterprise Server, released under the LGPL 2.1 license. It is the first…
Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Atarim as a Silver sponsor, strengthening the connection between MariaDB and the agencies and hosting providers shaping the web. Atarim is an AI web…
Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Atarim as a Silver sponsor, strengthening the connection between MariaDB and the agencies and hosting providers shaping the web. Atarim is an AI web…
Prove your PostgreSQL restore before a Kubernetes migration
A migration plan can name every component and still leave the useful question unanswered: if the move fails, can the application work again? A dump file is not that answer.…
Amazic joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Amazic as a Silver Sponsor, adding a new supporter with strong connections across the software ecosystem. Amazic connects innovative software vendors with partners, developers…
Three Days in Prague with the Percona MongoDB Team
Our MongoDB team at Percona works remotely, spread across many countries and time zones. Most days that works well, but once in a while it helps to be in the…
Make pg_stat_monitor stable again!
pg_stat_monitor started as a fork of pg_stat_statements, built to be a more advanced replacement for it. It provides more detailed information about query execution and groups it in configurable time…
MariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with TAF
TidesDB now exists inside MariaDB as a pluggable storage engine. With the TideSQL plugin available, anyone can load TidesDB into a MariaDB server and begin experimenting with it. But having…
When a Small Change Writes Too Much – How A Linux Kernel Improvement Can Strike You in PXC/Galera Workloads
We’ve recently been dealing with an interesting customer case where a PXC version upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0 seemed to trigger a completely unexpected problem. Even though the workload and…
JavaScript in MySQL: Extending SQL, Not Moving the Application
At Percona Live Europe 2026, Dmitry Lenev and I presented JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query, the story of component_js_lang, the V8-based JavaScript engine for Percona Server for…
MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 15 October 2026
The first half of October belonged to the ecosystem. The MariaDB Ecosystem Hub passed 200 entries six months after launch, Laravel 13 gained native MariaDB Vector support through community contributors,…
Retry-safe webhook ingestion with PostgreSQL: duplicates, concurrent requests and old snapshots
This is a synthetic laboratory example, not a customer production incident. AI assisted with drafting and checking the material. A webhook sender cannot always tell whether a delivery worked. The…
Solanica joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
We are pleased to welcome Solanica, the company driving the development of OpenEverest, as a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor. OpenEverest is an open-source platform for deploying and managing databases on…
Apologies for delaying Postgres 19
Everyone who follows database news has already heard about the delays of PostgreSQL 19: the major release that was supposed to go GA in September, now scheduled to be released…
MariaDB Foundation: Reproducing and Validating MDEV‑37992 with TAF
Thanks to Mark Callaghan for filing MDEV‑37992. This regression only appears under specific LRU and buffer‑pool conditions, and requires a memory‑resident workload to expose. Using TAF, I reproduced the issue…