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What is MariaDB?

What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system that uses the Structured Query Language (or SQL) to manage and manipulate da...
My experience in Latin America presenting the evolution of MariaDB

My experience in Latin America presenting the evolution of MariaDB

Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the open source event organized by our partner Imagunet in Colombia. The talk, titled &qu...
My experience at Cloud Expo Europe - London 2023

My experience at Cloud Expo Europe - London 2023

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Cloud Expo Europe in London with our team at MariaDB , where we promoted SkySQL , our cloud da...
Why MariaDB instead of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB?

Why MariaDB instead of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB?

Hi. My name is Alejandro Duarte. I'm a Software Engineer, published author, and Developer Advocate at MariaDB. Can you tell us a little...
ChatGPT as a MariaDB database

ChatGPT as a MariaDB database

ChatGPT is truly impressive. You can instruct it to do all sorts of things when they can be communicated in plain text. Software developers...
What is a Database Proxy?

What is a Database Proxy?

A proxy is a server software, typically installed in a separate machine, that forwards requests to servers on behalf of clients. When the p...
MariaDB replication demo

MariaDB replication demo

Database replication is a process that copies data from one database (primary) to another (replica). This process can happen as data is inse...
Building a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi (with automation)

Building a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi (with automation)

Some months ago, I was lucky enough to get a bunch of Raspberry Pi minicomputers from MariaDB Corporation . My idea was to build a Linux cl...
How to start a web server using Java

How to start a web server using Java

Do you want to start a basic HTTP server to serve the files in a directory on your machine using Java? If so, here's how. Available sinc...
What is JPA?

What is JPA?

JPA stands for Jakarta Persistence API (previously, Java Persistence API). It's an API specification for database connectivity in Java a...
What is a database connection pool?

What is a database connection pool?

A database connection pool stores ready-to-use database connections that threads can borrow when they need them, and return when they fin...

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