MariaDB Brings Its Vision to Life at OpenWorks 2023, Making Everyone Unstoppable with MariaDB Cloud and Distributed SQL
May 09 2023 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL communities can
tap Xpand scalability and resiliency to boost database
performance
MariaDB OpenWorks 2023 -- MariaDB plc (NYSE:MRDB) today,
at its global user conference OpenWorks 2023, unveiled its vision
to bring the power of distributed SQL through its award-winning
Xpand database to both the MariaDB/MySQL and PostgreSQL
communities.
“Our vision is to take databases to new heights of scale and
resilience, in any cloud at a fraction of the cost of competitors,”
said Michael Howard, CEO at MariaDB plc. “Xpand gives us the power
to do this in SkySQL and broaden its benefits to new communities
such as PostgreSQL. With this, we give the ultimate choice to our
customers.”
The choice is yours Distributed SQL is a new take on
relational databases, solving problems organizations have struggled
with for decades. Compounded by a world that is more connected than
ever before, organizations face growing demand from across the
globe. Their challenge is to operate their business continuously
while also capturing demand when it surges. Xpand is a distributed
SQL database built from the ground up to solve these challenges,
making our customers unstoppable.
“While distributed SQL’s benefits are undeniable, it used to
force you to make a database decision,” continued Howard. “It means
you ultimately had to migrate to a distributed SQL database. That
didn’t seem right to me. Our next disruptive innovation is about
giving options, not forcing a choice.”
At OpenWorks, MariaDB demonstrated how other open source
relational databases such as PostgreSQL used with Xpand’s
distributed SQL database scales beyond the conventional
primary/replica architecture that hits scalability limits quickly.
Benchmarks show PostgreSQL with Xpand scaling to 5x the number of
users at twice the throughput compared to PostgreSQL on its own and
a popular PostgreSQL cloud option.
A tech preview of PostgreSQL with Xpand will be available in
SkySQL, as a fully managed database service in a few weeks. Sign up
to be notified when it’s first available:
mariadb.com/Xpand4All.
Geospatial: a database and API-driven approach
Traditional geospatial solutions took a database-centric
approach or didn’t adopt open standard APIs, making it very
difficult for developers to work with geospatial data. New drones,
satellites and sensors means that geospatial or location-based data
is growing at unprecedented rates. Storing all this data in
databases alone is impossible given the magnitude of the problem
and increasing resolution of images. MariaDB Geospatial, based on
an acquisition made last year, is a developer-first, API-driven
solution that embraces open standard interfaces for web mapping and
geospatial queries. It combines vector storage in the database with
raster storage in cloud object storage – an approach that doesn’t
force a choice.
MariaDB Geospatial is now available on SkySQL as a tech
preview.
Cloud backup: on-prem databases and cloud benefits SkySQL
automatically backs up the databases it runs as a service,
consistent with other cloud databases. Similar to the recent
Observability news announced recently, MariaDB is extending its
cloud backup service to databases running on-prem and in other
cloud infrastructure. This gives databases not running in cloud
services the ability to benefit from them, with backups that can
ultimately also be restored in their cloud of choice for a failsafe
disaster recovery strategy.
Cloud Backup for remote databases is now available on SkySQL as
a tech preview.
To dive more into the details of MariaDB’s announcements, to see
demos and hear from customer successes, please join OpenWorks 2023
virtually, taking place live from New York on May 9-10.
Additional resources
- Attend MariaDB OpenWorks virtually
- Take MariaDB SkySQL for a spin
- Sign up to be notified when Xpand is available to try with
PostgreSQL
- Visit mariadb.com
- Follow @mariadb on Twitter
- Read MariaDB’s blog
- Learn about the winners of the first Wavemaker Awards
About MariaDB MariaDB is a new-generation cloud database
company whose products are used by companies big and small,
reaching more than a billion users through Linux distributions, and
have been downloaded over one billion times. Deployed in minutes
and maintained with ease leveraging cloud automation, our database
products are engineered to support any workload, any cloud and any
scale – all while saving up to 90% of proprietary database costs.
Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor,
Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote and SpendHQ, MariaDB’s software
is the backbone of critical services that people rely on every day.
Learn more at mariadb.com
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