content/stands/mariadb_foundation.md

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   2 description: MariaDB Server, the open source relational database, is part of most cloud offerings and the default in most Linux distributions.
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   4 logo: stands/mariadb_foundation/logo.png
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   6   <p>MariaDB Server 10.5 was released as GA in June 2020.</p>
   7   <p>Highlights include:<p>
   8   <ul>
   9     <li> the ColumnStore storage engine, a columnar storage engine designed for big data scaling</li>
  10     <li> numerous performance improvements to the default InnoDB storage engine</li>
  11     <li> a new S3 storage engine for archiving tables on Amazon S3, or any third-party implementing S3 API</li>
  12     <li> an overhaul of the privilege system, allowing more fine grained control</li>
  13     <li> a huge update of the Performance Schema, providing far more instrumentation and tables</li>
  14     <li> full GTID support for Galera Cluster</li>
  15     <li> numerous syntax enhancements to extend functionality and improve adherence to standards</li>
  16   </ul>
  17
  18   <p>The MariaDB Foundation hosted the MariaDB Server Fest, and the MariaDB Server MiniFest, two highly successful online events for developers of applications that use MariaDB Server.</p>
  19 showcase: |
  20   <link type=text/css rel="stylesheet" href="/stands/mariadb_foundation/style.css">
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  22   <p>
  23     The MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit organisation supporting continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem. The MariaDB Foundation supports continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem. The Foundation guarantees that there is a global contact point for collaboration and that the community can always rely upon MariaDB Server.
  24   </p>
  25
  26   <p>The Foundation’s staff support MariaDB Server by:</p>
  27   <ul>
  28     <li> Encouraging adoption, contribution and distribution of MariaDB Server and related open source software.</li>
  29     <li> Helping new contributors understand the source code and lowering the barrier for new participants.</li>
  30     <li> Participating in the design of new features, ensuring the code quality and maintainability of the codebase while the number of contributors is growing.</li>
  31     <li> Making sure documentation keeps up with the development of new features.</li>
  32     <li> Porting and packaging MariaDB to different platforms and operating systems to keep it as widely available as possible.</li>
  33     <li> Speaking at events and driving adoption.</li>
  34   </ul>
  35
  36   <h2>Schedule</h2>
  37   <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-condensed">
  38     <thead>
  39         <tr>
  40             <th colspan="2">Event</th>
  41             <th>Speakers</th>
  42             <th>Start</th>
  43             <th>End</th>
  44         </tr>
  45     </thead>
  46     <tbody>
  47       <tr>
  48         <td colspan="6"><h3>Saturday</h3></td>
  49       </tr>
  50       <tr>
  51         <td class="c3">&nbsp;</td>
  52         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_welcome/">Welcome to the MariaDB devroom</a></td>
  53         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/ian_gilfillan/" class="quiet">Ian Gilfillan</a></td>
  54         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:00:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1000">10:00</a></td>
  55         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:05:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1005">10:05</a></td>
  56       </tr>
  57       <tr>
  58         <td class="c4">&nbsp;</td>
  59         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_10_6/">MariaDB 10.6 and beyond</a></td>
  60         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/max/" class="quiet">Max Mether</a></td>
  61         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:05:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1005">10:05</a></td>
  62         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:30:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1030">10:30</a></td>
  63       </tr>
  64       <tr>
  65         <td class="c5">&nbsp;</td>
  66         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_upgrade/">Upgrading to a newer major version of MariaDB<br/><i>What mysql_upgrade really does and what problems remain</i></a></td>
  67         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/valerii_kravchuk/" class="quiet">Valerii Kravchuk</a></td>
  68         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:30:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1030">10:30</a></td>
  69         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:55:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1055">10:55</a></td>
  70       </tr>
  71       <tr>
  72         <td class="c6">&nbsp;</td>
  73         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_migrating/">Migrating from other databases to MariaDB</a></td>
  74         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/michael_monty_widenius/" class="quiet">Michael &quot;Monty&quot; Widenius</a></td>
  75         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T10:55:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1055">10:55</a></td>
  76         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T11:20:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1120">11:20</a></td>
  77       </tr>
  78       <tr>
  79         <td class="c7">&nbsp;</td>
  80         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_oracle/">Migration from Oracle to MariaDB with no application change</a></td>
  81         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/pickup_li/" class="quiet">pickup li</a></td>
  82         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T11:20:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1120">11:20</a></td>
  83         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T11:45:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1145">11:45</a></td>
  84       </tr>
  85       <tr>
  86         <td class="c8">&nbsp;</td>
  87         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_arm/">Migrating MariaDB Cluster to ARM</a></td>
  88         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/krunal_bauskar/" class="quiet">Krunal Bauskar</a></td>
  89         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T11:45:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1145">11:45</a></td>
  90         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T12:10:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1210">12:10</a></td>
  91       </tr>
  92       <tr>
  93         <td class="c9">&nbsp;</td>
  94         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_mariabackup/">Mariabackup - too rarely used</a></td>
  95         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/oli_sennhauser/" class="quiet">Oli Sennhauser</a></td>
  96         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T12:10:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1210">12:10</a></td>
  97         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T12:35:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1235">12:35</a></td>
  98       </tr>
  99       <tr>
 100         <td class="c10">&nbsp;</td>
 101         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_beyond_tutorials/">Databases beyond the tutorials<br/><i>Database usage for the real world for flexibility and scale</i></a></td>
 102         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/eric_herman/" class="quiet">Eric Herman</a></td>
 103         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T12:35:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1235">12:35</a></td>
 104         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T13:00:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1300">13:00</a></td>
 105       </tr>
 106       <tr>
 107         <td class="c1">&nbsp;</td>
 108         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_atomic_ddl/">Atomic DDL in MariaDB</a></td>
 109         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/michael_monty_widenius/" class="quiet">Michael &quot;Monty&quot; Widenius</a></td>
 110         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T13:00:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1300">13:00</a></td>
 111         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T13:25:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1325">13:25</a></td>
 112       </tr>
 113       <tr>
 114         <td class="c2">&nbsp;</td>
 115         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_roles/">MariaDB Roles<br/><i>Overview and Migration</i></a></td>
 116         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/vicentiu_ciorbaru/" class="quiet">Vicentiu Ciorbaru</a></td>
 117         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T13:50:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1350">13:50</a></td>
 118         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T14:15:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1415">14:15</a></td>
 119       </tr>
 120       <tr>
 121         <td class="c3">&nbsp;</td>
 122         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_set_operations/">Set operations UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT in MariaDB<br/><i>How to use and combine them.</i></a></td>
 123         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/oleksandr_byelkin/" class="quiet">Oleksandr Byelkin</a></td>
 124         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T14:15:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1415">14:15</a></td>
 125         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T14:40:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1440">14:40</a></td>
 126       </tr>
 127       <tr>
 128         <td class="c4">&nbsp;</td>
 129         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_json/">JSON Support news, non-news, and the bigger picture</a></td>
 130         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/sergei_petrunia/" class="quiet">Sergei Petrunia</a></td>
 131         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T14:40:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1440">14:40</a></td>
 132         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:05:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1505">15:05</a></td>
 133       </tr>
 134       <tr>
 135         <td class="c5">&nbsp;</td>
 136         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_devops/">MySQL Performance for DevOps</a></td>
 137         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/sveta_smirnova/" class="quiet">Sveta Smirnova</a></td>
 138         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:05:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1505">15:05</a></td>
 139         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:30:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1530">15:30</a></td>
 140       </tr>
 141       <tr>
 142         <td class="c6">&nbsp;</td>
 143         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_vagrant/">Creating Vagrant development machines for MariaDB<br/><i>HowTo and Best Practices</i></a></td>
 144         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/federico_razzoli/" class="quiet">Federico Razzoli</a></td>
 145         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:30:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1530">15:30</a></td>
 146         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:55:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1555">15:55</a></td>
 147       </tr>
 148       <tr>
 149         <td class="c7">&nbsp;</td>
 150         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_shard/">How to shard MariaDB like a Pro?</a></td>
 151         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/alkin_tezuysal/" class="quiet">Alkin Tezuysal</a></td>
 152         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T15:55:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1555">15:55</a></td>
 153         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T16:20:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1620">16:20</a></td>
 154       </tr>
 155       <tr>
 156         <td class="c8">&nbsp;</td>
 157         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_observability/">MariaDB Observability</a></td>
 158         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/peter_zaitsev/" class="quiet">Peter Zaitsev</a></td>
 159         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T16:20:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1620">16:20</a></td>
 160         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T16:45:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1645">16:45</a></td>
 161       </tr>
 162       <tr>
 163         <td class="c9">&nbsp;</td>
 164         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_jupyter/">The MariaDB Jupyter Kernel</a></td>
 165         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/robert_bindar/" class="quiet">Robert Bindar</a></td>
 166         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T16:45:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1645">16:45</a></td>
 167         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T17:10:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1710">17:10</a></td>
 168       </tr>
 169       <tr>
 170         <td class="c10">&nbsp;</td>
 171         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_distros/">MariaDB post-release quality assurance in Debian and Ubuntu<br/><i>What Linux distros can do about software quality</i></a></td>
 172         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/otto_kekalainen/" class="quiet">Otto Kekäläinen</a></td>
 173         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T17:10:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1710">17:10</a></td>
 174         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T17:35:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1735">17:35</a></td>
 175       </tr>
 176       <tr>
 177         <td class="c1">&nbsp;</td>
 178         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/event/mariadb_buffer_pool_improvements/">Buffer pool performance improvements<br/><i>How the LRU replacement and log checkpoints were made faster in MariaDB 10.5</i></a></td>
 179         <td><a href="/2021/schedule/speaker/marko_makela/" class="quiet">Marko Mäkelä</a></td>
 180         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T17:35:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1735">17:35</a></td>
 181         <td><a class="quiet value-title" title="2021-02-06T18:00:00+01:00" href="/2021/schedule/day/saturday/#1800">18:00</a></td>
 182       </tr>
 183     </tbody>
 184   </table>
 185
 186   <h2>We work with the community</h2>
 187   <p>
 188     We want to improve ourselves and we aspire to enhance your experience with MariaDB Server. One of our main objectives is to listen to our community and work with our developers and users alike to provide high quality functionalities for our database server. We would like your feedback to better understand where we should focus our resources with MariaDB Server by answering this <a href=""> very short poll</a> on our website.
 189   </p>
 190
 191   <h2>Our sponsors</h2>
 192   <p>
 193     The MariaDB Foundation is grateful to count on leaders such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Microsoft, the MariaDB Corporation, Service Now and many others as sponsors. Our sponsors not only provide financial support to help us deliver on our mission, they contribute code, participate in events, and work with us on content production, media outreach and more.
 194   </p>
 195   <p>
 196     If you would like to contribute to MariaDB Foundation’s goal of supporting continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem then check out our <a href="https://mariadb.org/donate/">sponsor</a> page.
 197   </p>
 198   <h5>Platinum sponsors</h5>
 199   <div class="platinum-sponsors-container">
 200     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/alibabacloud_new_logo-01.svg"></div>
 201     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/tencent-cloud_logo.svg"></div>
 202     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/microsoft_logo.svg"></div>
 203     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/mariadb_logo.svg"></div>
 204     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/01-ServiceNow_logo_STANDARD_RGB_TM_GG+A_050418-01.svg"></div>
 205   </div>
 206   <h5>Gold sponsors</h5>
 207   <div class="gold-sponsors-container">
 208     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/DBS_logo.svg"></div>
 209     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/IBM_logo.svg"></div>
 210     <div class="sponsor"><img src="/stands/mariadb_foundation/visma_logo.svg"></div>
 211   </div>
 212 themes:
 213 - Database engines
 214 title: MariaDB Foundation
 215 website: https://mariadb.org/
 216 show_on_overview: true
 217 chatroom: mariadb
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