On my way to Milano 🇮🇹 for my first in-person presentation for the #MariaDB Foundation 🦭
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Do you know the CONNECT engine? Are you using it? Take part in the survey: mariadb.org/poll-connect... #mariadb 🦭 ✍️
Where are users getting MariaDB Server from? Check the poll analysis mariadb.org/where-do-use... #mariadb 🦭
Rankings matter—but context matters more! #mariadb 🦭
New video series (Part 1/3): Database Trends — What is changing in the database world
Kaj had a conversation with Kellyn Gorman (Redgate Software) on how the database landscape is evolving.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbOQ...
Domani, non mancare questo webinar tutto in italiano 🦭 🇮🇹 go.mariadb.com/2026Q2-EMEA-... #mariadb
Preview releases give open-source communities a powerful chance to influence how a database evolves before it officially launches. Dive into the poll analysis to find out how our community is dealing with them! mariadb.org/what-our-sur... #mariadb
📢 New Poll: Where does the MariaDB Server you use mainly come from? #mariadb #vote mariadb.org/poll-mariadb... 🦭 ✅️
Happy Easter to all MariaDB users ! 🥚 🦭 🔔
A response to Percona’s 2026 MySQL ecosystem benchmark: useful data, but not a realistic MariaDB comparison 🦭 📊 mariadb.org/a-response-t... #mariadb
Nice to see initiatives like this one! Using MariaDB's Vector and Vector indexes in Drupal! www.drupal.org/project/ai_v... #MariaDB #Vector #Drupal 🦭
We’ve launched the MariaDB Foundation newsletter 🦭 📰 🎉 #mariadb #newsletter mariadb.org/newsletter/ - Subscribe now()
We just started the new MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program. Do you have somebody in mind who deserves such an award? Please submit your candidates. #mariadb #sealionchampion 🦭 🏆️ mariadb.org/know-a-maria...
We asked our community a simple question, and the answer is clear. Here is the analysis of the poll regarding observability. 👀 mariadb.org/mariadb-obse... 🦭 📊 #MariaDB #observability
C'est ce matin! Ne manquez pas ce webinaire -𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄- auquel je participe! Venez poser vos questions et être rassurés que vous faites le bon choix en passant à MariaDB 🦭 #MariaDB go.mariadb.com/2026Q1-EMEA-...
Very happy to see DBaasNow joining the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor. In complex database environments, automation, standardization, and operational consistency are essential. This is a nice addition to the MariaDB ecosystem. Welcome, DBaasNow! mariadb.org/dbaasnow-joi... 🦭 🩶
Big news: MariaDB has completed the acquisition of GridGain.
A very interesting move to unify transactions, analytics, vector capabilities, and in-memory speed for agentic AI workloads.
More details here: mariadb.com/newsroom/pre...
Great to see Datography joining the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor. In modern distributed environments, understanding data flows and dependencies really matters. This is a nice addition to the MariaDB ecosystem. Welcome, Datography! mariadb.org/datography-j... 🦭 🩶
The latest MariaDB Adoption Index data shows something I really like to see: not one lucky spike, but multiple signals moving in the right direction at the same time. We're really on a roll! mariadb.org/mariadb-keep... #MariaDB #momentum #adoption 🦭
MariaDB Curiosity: When did we start using REPLICA in MariaDB? 🦭 👀 lefred.be/content/mari... #MariaDB #curiosity
Are you using MariaDB Preview releases? Let me know! mariadb.org/poll-do-you-... 🦭 #MariaDB #preview
The MariaDB 13.0 Preview release is now available. Give it a try and don't forget that your feedback is important to us during these previews. This release is particularly rich in Community contributions! 🌟 mariadb.org/mariadb-13-0... #MariaDB #Preview
MariaDB users: this is worth a look 🦭 👀
TideSQL brings TidesDB into MariaDB as a pluggable storage engine, with standard SQL access to features like transactions, indexes, online DDL, backups, encryption, and TTL
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwHq...
#MariaDB #LSMTree #OpenSource #TidesDB
MariaDB's sealion explaining of vectors are working
MariaDB's implementation of a vector data type and index is among the most efficient, but how does it work? Sergei explains it in this first article of a new dedicated series. Don't miss it! mariadb.org/mariadb-vect...
MariaDB Innovation: Performance gain with InnoDB-Based Binary Logs - check this out 👀 mariadb.org/mariadb-inno... 🦭 📈
Pourquoi passer à MariaDB? Je suis invité à participer à ce webinaire; rejoignez-moi! 🦭 go.mariadb.com/2026Q1-EMEA-... #MariaDB
17954004 — that’s the number of the new MariaDB Server 🦭 Public LinkedIn Group. Now the important part: join us and connect with the global MariaDB community. Hope to see you there! www.linkedin.com/groups/17954... #mariadb
Take part in the new MariaDB poll, tell us which observability tools you use for MariaDB? 🦭 👀 mariadb.org/poll-which-o... #mariadb
Explore MariaDB statement observability with OpenSearch and Grafana by collecting Performance Schema statement history and turning it into interactive dashboards. #MariaDB #OpenSearch #Grafana 🦭 🔍️ 👀 mariadb.org/improving-ma...
MariaDB 🦭 is looking very strong 💪 in vector search 🔍️
In this benchmark across 10 databases on a 1M-vector OpenAI/DBpedia dataset, #MariaDB 12.3 delivered the highest QPS at >95% recall, and it built the index in under 15 minutes.
Fast search + fast build is a rare combo🎇
mariadb.org/big-vector-s...