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ducksdb-mysql-engine is an experimental build of MySQL 9.7 where a table you mark ENGINE=DuckDB answers analytical queries from DuckDB instead of InnoDB. Same server, same connection, no second copy of the data. On TPC-H at scale factor 10, InnoDB times out on 6 of the 22 queries and burns 1317 seconds on the 16 it … Continued The post Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine appeared first on Percona…. Read more

Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities. Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off. … Continue reading "MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine" The post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Migrating from MySQL to MariaDB is not considered to be an overly complex process.  After all, the two databases share […]… Read more

The promise of “serverless” is attractive to AI developers. Serverless is a cloud computing model that abstracts away infrastructure management, […]… Read more

Interview with Federico Razzoli, nominated in the Community Leadership category. The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … Continue reading "MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli" The post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

Recently we noticed a LinkedIn post promoting open_pg_tde, a fork of our pg_tde, claiming to be more open. I looked at the repository, and have to disagree with their claim. In this blog post, I’ll explain why…. Read more

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C++ 1.1.8 and 1.0.7 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.9 and 3.1.23. […]… Read more

  Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0 is out, and it closes three gaps that platform teams hit once a MySQL deployment grows past a single cluster. Picture a fleet that has outgrown one region: you want a warm replica cluster in a second data center, backups in object storage that pass an auditor’s encryption check, … Continued The post Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0: Cross-Site Replication, Encrypted Backups, and Automatic Storage Scaling appeared first on Percona…. Read more

Migrating a production PostgreSQL database on Kubernetes is not only about moving data from one operator to another. It is also about choosing the right trade-off between downtime, operational complexity, rollback safety, cost, and business risk. Practical migration paths from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL are described here.  1. … Continued The post Comparing Migration Methods from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL appeared first on Percona…. Read more

TAF 3.0 introduces the new TAF Results Backend, a structured results database and parser pipeline that delivers fully automated performance change detection. … Continue reading "TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection" The post TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. … Continue reading "MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions" The post MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, but disaster recovery usually requires another cluster in a separate location: another Kubernetes cluster, region, data center, or cloud…. Read more

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. … Continue reading "MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants" The post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor. Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. … Continue reading "Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor" The post Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more

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. … Continue reading "Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages" The post Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages appeared first on MariaDB.org…. Read more