MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF
In performance testing, numbers alone rarely tell the full story.
A benchmark result without context is just a result floating in space disconnected from the intent, and the conditions that produced it. …
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MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release
MariaDB Foundation’s Performance Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release represents the biggest changes to the framework since its creation.
This release reshapes how we organize, run, and report database workloads across MariaDB, MySQL, and now PostgreSQL. …
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Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
MariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor.
Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers and organisations control over where and how they run their applications. …
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TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: the Tides Are Moving Fast
A few months ago, I wrote about my first experiments with TideSQL, the MariaDB storage engine powered by TidesDB.
At that time, getting started meant building the TidesDB library, adding the TideSQL sources to the MariaDB source tree, compiling everything, installing the plugin and finally playing with:
It worked, and I liked what I saw. …
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“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova
At Percona Live Amsterdam I caught up with Sveta Smirnova, a world-renowned MySQL expert, author of “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, and a frequent speaker at events from Oracle OpenWorld and FOSDEM to HighLoad. …
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