MariaDB Foundation releases the BETA of the Test Automation Framework (TAF) 2.5
The MariaDB Foundation is releasing the BETA version of the Test Automation Framework (TAF) 2.5. This release represents a significant architectural upgrade, strengthening the framework’s lifecycle model, profiling capabilities, extraction and install pipeline, and reporting consistency. …
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What Our Survey Says About MariaDB Preview Releases
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 to catch issues while the change is still inexpensive. …
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MariaDB Vector: How it works. Part IV
This is the last post in the “MariaDB Vector: How it works” series. The first three were about storage, in-memory representation, HNSW modifications. …
A response to Perconaâs 2026 MySQL ecosystem benchmark: useful data, but not a realistic MariaDB comparison
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. …
MariaDB Vector: How it works. Part III
In the previous parts of this series we’ve seen how MariaDB stores vector indexes in a table and how to implement HNSW for a good performance. …
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