lefred blog: tribulations of a MySQL Evangelist

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. And some are about making security and access control easier to manage. Today, let’s look at one of those: DENY, also known as negative grants. Yes, […]

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. Today, MariaDB Server plugins are typically developed in C or C++, like the server’s codebase. At least for a while Even with the current plugin-writing […]

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. Wait for the validation, wait for the fix, and the release. Even if the MariaDB engineers are doing incredible work, […]

MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. But this time, there is something really interesting. And by “interesting”, I mean: wow! MariaDB 13.1 Preview includes 32 MDEVs with new features and […]

After testing the latest Storage Engine in the MariaDB family, DuckDB, I wanted to test another storage engine about which I had only heard good things: TideSQL. TideSQL is the name of the pluggable storage engine for MariaDB Server powered by TidesDB. TidesDB is an LSM-tree-based storage engine, and TideSQL makes it available directly inside […]