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SQL Server 2025 Performance, Scalability and High Availability: What Changed On-Premises and in the Cloud

SQL Server 2025 went generally available on 18 November 2025 and, as of this writing, sits at Cumulative Update 8 (build 17.0.4075.5, 13 August 2026). Strip away the AI features that took most of the [...]

Oracle Exadata to PostgreSQL 18 Migration: An Airline Operations Case Study from the MinervaDB Data Migration Team

This is the MinervaDB Data Migration Team's write-up of an Oracle Exadata to PostgreSQL 18 migration for an airline operations platform: crew scheduling, flight status, aircraft rotation and the reporting that hangs off them. The [...]

MongoDB 8.3 High Availability and Scalability: What Changed On-Premises and in Atlas

MongoDB 8.3 shipped on 4 May 2026, and for anyone who runs sharded clusters it is the first minor release where the self-managed builds get the same sharding lifecycle tooling that Atlas has been driving [...]

MySQL 26.7 Thread Pool architecture: thread groups, listener thread, high and low priority queues, worker threads and InnoDB

MySQL 26.7 and 9.7 LTS: 7 Powerful Features for Performance, Scalability and High Availability

MySQL 26.7 is the first release Oracle has shipped under calendar versioning, and it landed on 28 July 2026 together with MySQL 9.7.2 LTS and MySQL 8.4.11 LTS. Most of the coverage so far has [...]

Oracle Exadata Cost Optimization: Migrating to an Open Source Data Infrastructure Stack Without Compromising Performance, Scalability, Availability, or Reliability

MinervaDB whitepaper on Oracle Exadata cost optimization: measure Exadata license spend, optimize in place, then migrate to PostgreSQL 18, ClickHouse 26.3 LTS, Kafka/Debezium and Valkey with code, diagrams, TCO model and a rollback-safe cutover plan.

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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 [...]

btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL 18

SQL Server 2025 High Availability: Always On, Failover Clustering, and Maximum Availability

SQL Server 2025 High Availability has reached a new frontier with Microsoft's most advanced release to date. Whether you are a database administrator architecting enterprise workloads, a cloud engineer designing multi-region deployments, or a DevOps [...]

MySQL Replication Monitoring: Enhanced Features for the Enterprise Edition

MySQL Replication Monitoring is a critical operational discipline — and in MySQL Enterprise Edition, it is also a substantially more capable one. MySQL replication has long served as the backbone of high-availability architectures, disaster recovery [...]

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