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MariaDB 12.3 LTS Webinar: Performance, Scalability, High Availability & the AI-Native Database

Our MariaDB 12.3 LTS webinar is now available as a free PDF download. Over 60 minutes, Shiv Iyer — Founder & CEO of MinervaDB and a database engineer who has spent three decades inside MySQL, [...]

MariaDB High Availability: Maximum Availability Solutions in MariaDB 12.3 LTS

MariaDB high availability reached a new baseline with MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, GA on 2026-05-29 as version 12.3.2. For the first time, a MariaDB LTS release ships parallel replication between Galera Clusters (MDEV-20065), closing the [...]

MariaDB 12.3 LTS: Advances and Building Fault-Tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure at Internet Scale

MariaDB 12.3 is the current long-term support release of MariaDB Community Server. It reached Stable/GA on 28 May 2026 and is maintained until June 2029, making it the first LTS line since MariaDB 11.8. For [...]

Troubleshooting ProxySQL in High-Velocity Data Ingestion: Critical Pitfalls and Expert Solutions

Troubleshooting ProxySQL in High-Velocity Data Ingestion: Critical Pitfalls and Expert Solutions Understanding the Challenge: ProxySQL in High-Performance Environments ProxySQL serves as the critical middleware layer in high-velocity data ingestion platforms built on Percona XtraDB Cluster […]

Implementing Percona Audit Plugin for Percona XtraDB Cluster with ProxySQL

Implementing Percona Audit Plugin for Percona XtraDB Cluster with ProxySQL Introduction Database auditing is crucial for compliance, security monitoring, and forensic analysis in enterprise environments. The Percona Audit Plugin provides comprehensive database activity logging for […]

Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.42-26.23 and 8.4.5-26.23

Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.42-26.23 and 8.4.5-26.23: Complete Technical Guide Introduction The latest release of Galera Cluster 4 for MySQL brings significant improvements with versions 8.0.42-26.23 and 8.4.5-26.23, released on June 24, 2025 1. This […]

MySQL Group Replication vs MariaDB Galera Cluster

MySQL Group Replication vs MariaDB Galera Cluster: Choosing the Right High Availability Solution When implementing high availability for MySQL and MariaDB databases, two prominent solutions stand out: MySQL Group Replication and MariaDB Galera Cluster. Both […]

MariaDB Galera Cluster Monitoring:

Implementing MariaDB Galera Cluster Monitoring: Complete Guide to Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus for SRE Excellence Introduction: Building a Bulletproof MariaDB SRE Ecosystem In today’s data-driven landscape, MariaDB Galera Cluster Monitoring is crucial for maintaining […]

Troubleshooting Writes in Galera Cluster

Troubleshooting WRITE Performance Bottlenecks in Galera Cluster Operations Understanding Galera Cluster Write Performance Galera Cluster uses synchronous replication, which means every write operation must be committed on all nodes before being acknowledged to the client. […]

Horizontally Scaling MariaDB

Understanding MariaDB Horizontal Scaling Horizontal scaling MariaDB (scale-out) involves distributing the database workload across multiple servers rather than upgrading a single server’s hardware. MariaDB offers several approaches to achieve horizontal scalability. Core Infrastructure Requirements 1. […]

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