2023 was a fruitful year for Vettabase Ltd, so I’ve taken some time to mark the company’s progress over the last 12 months in a blog post. I think this is also the right moment to thank everyone who crossed paths with Vettabase and contributed to its prosperity. New...
Federico Razzoli
Making the case for stored procedures
MariaDB stored procedures and why they should be improved was the title of my talk at MariaDB Server Fest 2023 in Helsinki. My point was that an improved stored procedures implementation would bring benefits to individual users, the MariaDB community, and the two...
Vettabase has partnered with Bytebase!
Vettabase is pleased to announce a partnership with Bytebase, a company behind the namesake open-source database DevOps tool, a GitLab for managing databases throughout the application development lifecycle. Bytebase offers a web-based workspace for DBAs and software...
MariaDB Catalogs: some use cases
This month I attended Monty’s talk about Catalogs at MariaDB Server Fest 2023 in Helsinki. He described this nice feature, which is still under development, and how it will work. But when he talked about the use cases, I was under the impression that catalogs have...
Vettabase is now a MindsDB partner for MySQL integration
Vettabase is excited to announce a partnership with MindsDB, an AI-Automation Platform that enables the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications. Starting from September 2023, Vettabase will help MySQL users to leverage MindsDB’s advantages and build...
MariaDB/MySQL: working with storage engines
MariaDB and MySQL support several storage engines. See MariaDB and MySQL storage engines: an overview for a discussion about existing MariaDB and MySQL storage engines. Here we'll see how to work with them. We'll see how to obtain information about storage engines,...
MariaDB and MySQL storage engines: an overview
MySQL was the first DBMS to introduce the concept of storage engines in the early 2000s. This was one of its main features. Later, MariaDB extended the storage engine API and included some storage engine maintained by third parties as part of its official...
Treedom: assistance with MySQL in the cloud + ProxySQL on Kubernetes
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The UUID data type in MariaDB
MariaDB introduced the UUID data type in version 10.7. The first long-term support (LTS) version to include it is 10.11, which was declared stable in February 2023. In this article we will discuss how to use the UUID type, and why it is often wise to use it as a...
Recent MariaDB Features to learn for a happy life
Federico Razzoli at MariaDB Server Fest 2022