MariaDB is one of the stalwarts of the open-source database world. Born out of the MySQL fork following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, the project has served as a bedrock for web applications and enterprise systems alike for more than a decade.
But the demands placed on databases are shifting. As companies experiment with AI systems and so-called “agentic applications” that can plan tasks and query enterprise data, developers are running into an all-too-familiar constraint: Many of the databases underpinning business…

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