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MariaDB Puts $25K on the Table in Distributed SQL Throwdown

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Compare Xpand, MariaDBs distributed SQL database , in a proof of concept with another distributed SQL solution.

Key Points: 
  • Compare Xpand, MariaDBs distributed SQL database , in a proof of concept with another distributed SQL solution.
  • The challenge applies to either Xpand deployed on a customers hardware or cloud infrastructure, or Xpand deployed in the cloud on MariaDB SkySQL .
  • Were confident that MariaDB Xpand outperforms the early-stage distributed SQL offerings like CockroachDB and were ready to put it to the test, said Robbie Mihalyi, senior vice president of engineering, MariaDB Corporation.
  • Xpand scales to millions of transactions a second with ease using distributed SQL and a shared-nothing architecture.

MariaDB Xpand Wins InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award as a Leading Distributed SQL Database

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Thursday, April 21, 2022

MariaDB Corporation today announced that its distributed SQL database MariaDB Xpand has won Foundrys (formerly IDG Communications) InfoWorld 2022 Technology of the Year Award .

Key Points: 
  • MariaDB Corporation today announced that its distributed SQL database MariaDB Xpand has won Foundrys (formerly IDG Communications) InfoWorld 2022 Technology of the Year Award .
  • Legacy relational databases are notoriously complex and difficult to scale, while NoSQL databases scale with a significant risk to data consistency.
  • Xpand is a new generation relational database capable of running at a previously impossible scale while maintaining strong consistency and absolute availability.
  • Were honored to win Technology of the Year by InfoWorld, said Jon Bakke, head of global field operations, MariaDB Corporation.