That is the idea behind Sergei Golubchik’s session, MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It just works: Zero-configuration SSL and PARSEC authentication.
You are an experienced MySQL DBA. Then somebody hands you a MariaDB environment and says, “It’s basically the same thing.”
Security is much better when doing the secure thing is also the easiest thing.
View the session on the Percona Live website
The booth is also a great place to explore the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub.
Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins
Frédéric Descamps – lefred — MariaDB Foundation
Wednesday, September 9 — 12:05–12:35
We are looking forward to hearing more about those plans in Amsterdam.
Sergei Golubchik — Chief Architect, MariaDB
Wednesday, September 9 — 17:05–17:35
Performance, features and reliability matter enormously, but users also need connectors, extensions, hosting providers, cloud platforms, application frameworks, migration tools, documentation and complete architectures around the database.
The MariaDB story at Percona Live goes beyond our own sessions: other members of the database community will share their experiences running MariaDB.
The session will cover initiatives including plugin and extension discovery, the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub, solution stacks, contributor pathways, documentation, LLM discoverability, and partnerships with complementary open source projects and infrastructure providers.
Except that, after many years of independent development, it isn’t.
A thriving open source community needs more than presentations from the people developing the software. It also needs independent experience, opinions, criticism, and feedback from those actually operating it.
MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It Just Works
A thriving open source community needs more than presentations from the people developing the software. It also needs independent experience, opinions, criticism, and feedback from those actually operating it.
MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source
A thriving open source community needs more than presentations from the people developing the software. It also needs independent experience, opinions, criticism, and feedback from those actually operating it.
MariaDB at Percona — and a Familiar Face
A thriving open source community needs more than presentations from the people developing the software. It also needs independent experience, opinions, criticism, and feedback from those actually operating it.
Congratulations, You’re Now a MariaDB DBA
A thriving open source community needs more than presentations from the people developing the software. It also needs independent experience, opinions, criticism, and feedback from those actually operating it.
Come and Meet Us at the MariaDB Booth
The objective is not simply to showcase plugins. It demonstrates how MariaDB’s extensibility lets developers and DBAs add capabilities to the server without maintaining a long-lived fork.
In MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source, MariaDB Foundation CEO Anna Widenius will explore what it takes to build this wider adoption layer around a mature open source database.
Their session covers areas where MariaDB and MySQL have evolved differently, including replication, GTIDs, SQL syntax, permissions, plugins, binlogs, undo log handling, and JSON functionality.
MariaDB will have a booth at Percona Live Amsterdam, and we would love you to stop by.
Percona Live returns to Europe on September 9–11, 2026, and MariaDB will be there!
View the session on the Percona Live website
Discover the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub
PARSEC authentication introduces a trustless authentication protocol with built-in protection against brute-force, replay, and precomputation attacks.
After a quick introduction to the plugin architecture, build process, installation and testing workflow, the session will explore real-world plugins covering a wide range of use cases.
Andrew Moore and Simon Mudd will present Congratulations, You’re Now a MariaDB DBA.
Zero-configuration SSL automatically encrypts MariaDB connections with end-to-end certificate verification, without requiring CA-signed certificates or traditional SSL configuration.
It also includes our growing work around Solution Stacks: complete open source architectures showing how MariaDB Server can work together with other projects to solve real-world problems.
MariaDB Server is not only a database you configure and operate. It is also a platform you can extend.
The premise will sound familiar to quite a few database administrators:
See You in Amsterdam!
Of course, conferences are not only about presentations.
The Ecosystem Hub is our effort to make that world easier to discover.
We are looking forward to meeting MariaDB users, MySQL users, DBAs, developers, contributors, partners, and, of course, plenty of database-curious people in Amsterdam.
We are particularly happy to see sessions like this at Percona Live.
