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Installing MariaDB 11.8

January 4, 2026November 23, 2025 by sandeep

MariaDB 11.8 is one of the latest stable releases and introduces several improvements over previous versions, including enhanced replication, performance stability, and more importantly for modern AI workloads — native vector data type and vector indexing support. In our environment, the upgrade to MariaDB 11.8 was driven primarily by its built-in vector database capabilities, enabling efficient similarity search and … Read more

Categories How To Tags 11.8, ANN search, cosine similarity, Euclidean distance, LLM response ranking, mariadb, Metadata-enriched AI pipelines, Semantic search, Similarity detection, vector db

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