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Technology

MariaDB 13 new features in Docker, and whether to upgrade

MariaDB 13.0.2, stable since 15 September 2026, is a rolling release with community support until Q4 2026, not an LTS. It adds redo log archiving, UPDATE with RETURNING and implicit query block names for hints. I upgraded in Docker from 12.3 and 11.8: the server starts, but mariadb-upgrade misses broken stored routines.

Architecture

DuckDB in enterprise analytics: concrete cases

DuckDB has spent two or three years quietly working its way into data architectures. It is no longer just the embedded database for local analytics: in 2025 it keeps turning up in concrete enterprise cases where it replaces far pricier pieces. A tour of the real patterns.