Solanica Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor
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Solanica Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor

• By Solanica Team Solanica Team

We are proud to announce that Solanica is now a Silver Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation. Read the official announcement on mariadb.org.

As the company driving the development of OpenEverest, we believe the best way to build open-source database infrastructure is to invest in the open-source databases themselves. Supporting MariaDB Foundation is a natural next step now that MariaDB is a first-class citizen in OpenEverest.

Why MariaDB, Why Now

MariaDB is one of the most widely deployed open-source relational databases in the world, and its community keeps growing. At the same time, more and more teams are standardizing on Kubernetes for everything they run, including their data.

Those two trends meet in OpenEverest. With the recently added MariaDB support, developers and platform teams can run MariaDB next to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and the other supported engines - using the same UI, API, and operational workflows.

“With OpenEverest becoming a de-facto standard to run databases on Kubernetes, it was inevitable that we add MariaDB into the list of supported databases. The MariaDB community is growing, and we’re proud to support it as a Silver Sponsor – bringing MariaDB to more Kubernetes teams through a familiar, open-source workflow.”

— Sergey Pronin, Founder of Solanica

“Every new integration expands the possibilities for MariaDB users. We are happy to welcome Solanica as a Silver Sponsor and to see OpenEverest bringing MariaDB to more teams in the Kubernetes community.”

— Anna Widenius, CEO of MariaDB Foundation

MariaDB on Kubernetes with OpenEverest

OpenEverest integrates with the open-source mariadb-operator through the provider-mariadb. Out of the box you get:

  • High Availability: Run MariaDB with native replication or Galera for automatic failover and zero-downtime maintenance.
  • Backups & Point-in-Time Recovery: Scheduled and on-demand physical and logical backups to S3-compatible storage, with point-in-time recovery.
  • Flexible Storage: Choose the storage class per cluster and expand volumes online as your data grows.
  • Advanced Configuration: Tune engine parameters, topology, and external access without touching kubectl.
  • TLS & Security: Automated certificate management and encrypted connections between clients and nodes.

All of it runs on your own Kubernetes clusters - in the public cloud, on-premises, or at the edge - with no licensing fees and no lock-in.

What This Means for Solanica Customers

For organizations that need more than the open-source project, Solanica Platform builds on OpenEverest with enterprise support, SLAs, and professional services. MariaDB is now part of that offering, so you can consolidate your relational workloads on a single database-as-a-service platform while staying fully on open-source engines.

Our sponsorship also means that what we learn running MariaDB on Kubernetes flows back to the community that builds it.

Get Started

Thank you to MariaDB Foundation for the warm welcome - we look forward to building the future of open-source databases together.

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