MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026
How are developers and organisations really using databases — and MariaDB? Take our survey and help shape this year’s public report. The survey is anonymous and should take 8 minutes or less to finish. Results will...
Category: NewSQL, XML, RDF Data Stores, RDBMS
From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability
Q1. As the tech lead for AdminAPI, you’ve spent years helping shape how MySQL users deploy and manage InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet environments. From your experience, what are some of the most important...
Building on Open Ground: Ilia Kors on Why Aqtra Chose MariaDB as the Native Foundation of Its Enterprise Platform
Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a...
Latch-Free and Faster: David Lomet on the Engineering of High-Performance Database Kernels and the Future of Concurrent Access Methods
“To build a system, you need a team.” Q1. The Bw-tree, which emerged from your Deuteronomy project, won the 2023 ICDE 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award — a recognition that its ideas have proven...
SurrealDB
SurrealDB is an open source multi-model database that supports relational, document, graph, and vector data in a single platform using a unified query language (SurrealQL). It is designed for modern applications that require multiple...
DuckDB
DuckDB is an open source, in-process analytical SQL database designed for fast analytical queries directly on local files including Parquet, CSV, and JSON, as well as data frames in Python and R. It requires...
Neon
Neon is an open source serverless PostgreSQL platform featuring database branching — the ability to create instant, copy-on-write branches of a database for development, testing, and CI/CD workflows. Neon separates storage and compute, enabling...
TiDB
TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database featuring hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capabilities in a single system. It is MySQL-compatible, horizontally scalable, and designed for applications requiring both real-time OLTP and...
YugabyteDB
YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database fully compatible with PostgreSQL. It is designed for cloud-native applications requiring horizontal scalability, geo-distribution, and high availability with ACID compliance. YugabyteDB supports both the PostgreSQL wire...
LanceDB
LanceDB is an open source vector database built on the Lance columnar storage format, designed for multimodal AI data including text, images, video, and audio. It is serverless, embeddable, and integrates with Python data...