We are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor.

IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM^® Power^® and IBM Z^®, reflecting a shared interest in ensuring that MariaDB Server remains available, well tested and relevant across a broad range of architectures and demanding production environments.

Open source across enterprise platforms

MariaDB Server is used in environments ranging from individual developer machines and cloud infrastructure to business-critical enterprise systems. Supporting such a diverse community requires more than developing database features. It also means building, testing and improving MariaDB Server across different operating systems, processor architectures and deployment models.

IBM Power and IBM Z serve organisations that place particularly high demands on performance, resilience, security and long-term continuity. IBM’s support helps MariaDB Foundation work towards stronger platform coverage and gives the MariaDB community a direct connection to expertise from both IBM platform teams.

Collaboration around IBM Power

MariaDB Server has an established presence on IBM Power, where open-source software plays an important role in modern application environments.

Our collaboration provides opportunities to improve the experience of building, testing and running MariaDB Server on the Power architecture, while making it easier for developers and organisations to include MariaDB in solutions deployed on IBM Power.

This work supports the wider goal of ensuring that MariaDB Server performs well beyond the most common hardware configurations and remains accessible to users choosing architectures suited to their specific workloads.

Expanding opportunities on IBM Z

IBM Z is home to some of the world’s most important transactional and data-intensive workloads. As organisations modernise applications and expand their use of Linux and open-source technologies on the platform, databases such as MariaDB Server can become part of a broader, more flexible application environment.

Through the sponsorship, MariaDB Foundation and IBM can continue exploring how MariaDB Server can be built, tested and used effectively on IBM Z, while identifying practical use cases and areas for deeper technical collaboration.

Supporting openness, adoption and continuity

IBM’s Platinum sponsorship contributes directly to the three pillars of MariaDB Foundation’s mission:

Openness, by enabling collaboration across companies, platforms and technical communities.

Adoption, by helping MariaDB Server reach more users, workloads and computing environments.

Continuity, by supporting the independent non-profit organisation that safeguards the long-term health and accessibility of the MariaDB Server ecosystem.

IBM also participates in MariaDB Foundation governance, bringing valuable enterprise and platform perspectives into discussions about the future of the MariaDB ecosystem.

Thank you, IBM

We are grateful to the IBM Power and IBM Z organisations for jointly supporting MariaDB Foundation at the Platinum level.

Their combined commitment sends an important message: open-source database technology belongs across the full computing landscape, from cloud-native applications to some of the world’s most powerful and resilient enterprise platforms.

We look forward to developing the collaboration further and creating more opportunities for MariaDB Server users, contributors and solution builders across both IBM Power and IBM Z.