SQLSTATE [HY000] [2006] Galera has gone away

Дата публикации: 27-02-2026 13:28:55

TL:DR : i find this move detrimental to MariaDB as a wholeMariaDB plc’s decision to pull Galera, its synchronous multi-master replication solution, out of the open-source ecosystem in MariaDB 12.3 LTS has been quietly shaking the extended MariaDB community lately.Galera has been a critical component for high-availability MariaDB deployments, enabling robust scaling and fault tolerance. But with MariaDB’s acquisition of Codership and the sudden shift of Galera to a commercial license, the message to the community is clear: the rules have changed. For organizations that migrated from MySQL to MariaDB in search of stability, openness, and innovation, this move raises serious questions.MariaDB plc frames this decision as a necessary step to accelerate innovation and deliver greater value to customers. By integrating Galera directly into its Enterprise Platform, the company aims to streamline development, reduce feature delays, and offer a more cohesive high-availability solution. This aligns with MariaDB’s broader push to strengthen its enterprise offerings, particularly following its transition to private ownership and the arrival of a new CEO focused on profitability.However, the acquisition also serves a more strategic purpose: preventing future forks of Galera by third parties. By owning the codebase, MariaDB now controls the technology’s evolution and distribution, effectively eliminating competition from community-driven alternatives. While this may secure revenue streams, it risks alienating the very community that has been MariaDB’s strongest advocate.The parallels with HashiCorp’s controversial shift to a Business Source License for Vault are striking. Both companies have taken widely used open-source tools and placed them behind commercial barriers. Yet while HashiCorp provided clear migration paths, MariaDB’s approach feels abrupt.Also the timing particularly damaging. MariaDB Foundation is making pushes to present MariaDB as the natural continuation of MySQL amidst growing concerns about Oracle’s neglect of MySQL. And in parallel we have MariaDB plc behaving just like Oracle with a very popular piece of tech. This comes in direct conflict with the Foundation claims giving MariaDB’s detractors just the perfect ammunition to kill the narrative even before it can spread out.Beside this already disastrous timing, it can only erode the trust in MariaDB’s future. To put it bluntly, stating that open source does not equate to “free for everyone in perpetuity” as the CEO of MariaDB plc did during a MariaDB Foudnation board meeting is mostly telling about an absence of commitment to openness. Furthermore this argument used to explain close-sourcing Galera and Maxscale could very well be also applied the server itself. C*O won’t like this potential for instability. I dont like it either. And i really think this will drive many potential and actual clients away from MariaDB. It’s litteraly a godsend for the likes of Percona, VillageSQL and mostly PostgreSQL. As if the latter needed any help in this very moment …One a personal level, it seems i underestimated the greed of the corporation when i expressed myself about the Codership acquisition. Maybe i was too naïve indeed despite having a usually rather cynical nature when it comes down to business.Now the question is : how will the Foundation handle this ? We have elements of answers in the minutes of their board meeting 1/2026. I totally concur with option 2 as well. Will it take the form of a formal community-driven fork of galera 4 ? Would it take a port of Galera to VillageSQL ? Will it be Percona driven ? I can’t tell yet, but actions will speak louder than words as always.EDIT : a few hours after my publication, the plc issued a public statement on its blog : https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/mariadb-community-server-12-3-will-include-galera-cluster/
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