In practice, technology decisions are rarely made in isolation. Teams do not choose a database alone. They choose architectures: combinations of infrastructure, data platforms, and application layers that together form a working system.
In most discussions, the answer tends to focus on contributors to the source code: engineers, committers, and core developers shaping the database itself. That perspective is both valid and essential.
The first Solution Stacks are currently in progress and will be published in the coming weeks.
https://ecohub.mariadb.org
What is being built around MariaDB?
Where is it being used?
What kinds of systems does it power in practice?
Solution Stacks are reference architectures built from real technologies in the ecosystem. They combine multiple layers into coherent, production-oriented setups that reflect how systems are actually built and operated.
A catalog can show what exists.
It does not yet show how everything fits together.
Making the Ecosystem Visible
Over the past month, one question has been coming up with increasing frequency:
But it is only part of the picture.
The goal is simple: make the ecosystem around MariaDB easier to discover and understand.
- Platforms running MariaDB
- Tools integrating with it
- Services built around it
- Infrastructure it runs on
We invite you to be part of shaping how it is represented.
From Catalog to Context
What is the MySQL / MariaDB ecosystem?
This broader view captures the part of the ecosystem that is often less visible, but just as important: platforms, tools, services, and infrastructure that rely on MariaDB as a foundation.
The Hub provides a structured view of the ecosystem, including:
Introducing Solution Stacks
As we move from listing technologies to showing complete architectures, the ecosystem becomes easier to navigate, easier to understand, and more useful for everyone evaluating and building with MariaDB!
This is the next step we are now starting to develop: Solution Stacks.
However, building the Hub made one thing clear very quickly.
- Show how different technologies work together in practice
- Reflect real deployment patterns
- Support architecture and vendor selection decisions
Over the past few months, we have been looking at the ecosystem from a different angle:
An Open Invitation
They are designed to:
To address this, we launched the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub:
If you are building with MariaDB — whether as a platform provider, tool developer, or service partner — you are already part of this ecosystem.
