The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

MariaDB plc today announced the immediate availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2026, positioning it as the definitive database platform for building next-generation intelligent applications.

The privately held database company MariaDB plc seems to have changed its mind about the future of SkySQL Inc., deciding it does need it after all. In a somewhat unusual reversal, it revealed it’s ...

Finnish Open source enterprise database company MariaDB plc today announced it has acquired SkySQL, the company behind an AI-powered, serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform. MariaDB ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

The acquisition could be another step in MariaDB PLC’s evolution towards becoming a trustworthy, recurring-revenue open source database platform, analysts say. Struggling database company MariaDB PLC ...

MariaDB plc today is acquiring Finnish-based company Codership Oy, along with its flagship product Galera Cluster, a dynamic high availability database solution providing high uptime, no data loss, ...

Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution. With this release, MariaDB customers have a single, ...

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MariaDB‘s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management. MariaDB also announced a new CEO in ...