MariaDB Server Fest
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Feb 1, 2026
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 90 attendees2025
- Past ticket prices
- Free2025 event · Brussels
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 1 recorded in 2024No list the year beforeIncomplete or unverified lists; counts may understate activity.
- Program freshness
- 93/100#84 of 143 · 0% rerunsTalk novelty and speaker variety.
- Similar conferences
- MySQL BR Conf, Percona Live, FOSDEM
- Organizer
- MariaDB Foundation
- Category
- Database
- Website
- mariadb.org
- Typical place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Topics
- Database systems
The MariaDB Foundation's flagship user events, held under changing names: the first 'MariaDB Day' in Brussels (2 Feb 2020, a FOSDEM fringe event), then online 'MariaDB Server Fests' and half-day 'MiniFests', then hybrid/in-person 'Server Fests'/'ServerFests' and 'MariaDB Day' editions, mostly around FOSDEM (Brussels) or tied to other conferences (Open Source India, Open Source Summit Europe). Free to attend (registration via Meetup or the Foundation site). Online-only events are out of scope and not recorded as editions: MariaDB Server Fest 14-20 Sep 2020, Server MiniFest 9 Dec 2020, HA MiniFest 24 Mar 2021, Cloud MiniFest 9 Jun 2021, Server Fest 21-22 Sep 2021, 'From the frontlines' MiniFest 8 Dec 2021, and Security MiniFest 6 Apr 2022. Recorded editions: 2020 MariaDB Day Brussels; 2022 Fest (hybrid, Grankulla/Kauniainen, Finland); 2023 (Un)Conference + Server Fest (hybrid, Espoo); 2024 Brussels, Berlin and Bengaluru; 2025 Brussels, Singapore and Amsterdam; 2026 MariaDB Day Brussels. The 2023 developer (Un)Conference days (3-4 Oct) are noted on that edition but its speakers are not recorded (only the Server Fest day). The 2025 Singapore event was billed as the 'First MariaDB Singapore Meetup' but sits under the Fest URL scheme (fest-2025-singapore). Social accounts are the Foundation's.
Speakers it attracts
The 56 people who spoke at MariaDB Server Fest in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Peter Zaitsev · PerconaKeynoted 7 other conferences, spoke at 15: Data Con LA, PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU), Percona Live…
- Vicențiu Ciorbaru · MariaDBKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Percona Live, FOSDEM
- Alexander Rubin · Amazon Web ServicesSpoke at 4 other conferences: AWS re:Invent, Percona Live, FOSDEM…
- Ann Schlemmer · PerconaKeynoted 1 other conference: Percona Live
- Roman Nozdrin · MariaDBSpoke at 3 other conferences: FOSDEM, MySQL BR Conf, DuckCon
- Michael “Monty” Widenius · MariaDBSpoke at 2 other conferences: FOSDEM, MySQL BR Conf
- Sergei Golubchik · MariaDBSpoke at 2 other conferences: Percona Live, FOSDEM
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Complete list
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
5 of 7 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2026 | MariaDB Day Brussels 2026 | Brussels, Belgium | — | — | 13 | |
| Aug 27, 2025 | MariaDB Server Fest Amsterdam 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | — | — | 6 | |
| Jul 4, 2025 | First MariaDB Singapore Meetup (2025) | Singapore, Singapore | — | — | 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2025 | MariaDB Day Brussels 2025 | Brussels, Belgium | 90 | — | 11 | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | MariaDB ServerFest India 2024 | Bengaluru, India | — | — | 17 | |
| Sep 17, 2024 | MariaDB ServerFest Berlin 2024 | Berlin, Germany | — | 1 | 13 | |
| Feb 2–3, 2024 | MariaDB ServerFest Brussels 2024 | Brussels, Belgium | — | — | 31 | |
| Oct 5, 2023 | MariaDB (Un)Conference and MariaDB Server Fest 2023 | Espoo, Finland | — | — | 9 | |
| Nov 17, 2022 | MariaDB Server Fest 2022 | Kauniainen, Finland | — | — | 9 | |
| Feb 2, 2020 | MariaDB Day Brussels 2020 | Brussels, Belgium | — | 2 | 11 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 10 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- MySQL BR Conf0.18
- Percona Live0.12
- FOSDEM0.11
- preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days0.09
- PGConf NYC0.09
Sponsors over the years
Top 3 of 3 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Other / unspecified