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[Proposal]: Marina: the m-ecosystem plugin delivery platform #153
Description
Pre-flight Checklist
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Primary Contact Name
lefred
Primary Contact Email
Company / Organization
MariaDB Foundation
Role
Community Advocate
Additional Authors / Contributors
No response
Component
Other
Target Release (Optional)
9.7, 26.7
Roadmap Section
Extensibility/Ecosystem
Related Issues / Pull Requests / References (Optional)
No response
Executive Summary
Marina Server publishes signed MariaDB plugin and MySQL plugin/component catalogs.
The catalog also includes a trust level.
Marina plugins and components consume those catalogs to deploy plugins in the easiest, most controlled way on your favorite server.
User / Developer Stories
- As a DBA, you can easily install plugins/components without having to access the filesystem
- As a developer, you can browse available compatible plugins (functions, data types, storage engines, ...) and install them if you have enough privileges
- As a software creator, I can use the Marina ecosystem to make my extension known to the community and use it to distribute my extension.
Proposed Scope
This is a proposal to discover this solution, share feedback, and present it during the summit
Out of Scope / Future Work
No response
References
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Functional Requirements
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Non-functional Requirements
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Impact Areas
- SQL syntax or statements
- Configuration options or system variables
- Command-line options or utilities
- User-visible behavior
- Observability
- Security or privilege model
- Protocol or replication behavior
- Upgrade / downgrade compatibility
- Performance or resource usage
- Files, persistence, or metadata formats
- APIs or internal interfaces
- Testing or QA coverage needs
Summary of the Approach
For MySQL (and other M-ecosystem servers), an extension (a component for MySQL) will take care of everything on the database side.
User Interface
SQL function, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA tables, specific privileges, global status and global variables will be managed by the marina-component
Configuration / Knobs
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Observability
a performance_schema.marina_catalog table is available
User Procedure
No response
Security Considerations
signatures and keys are using public and private keys
Compatibility and Behavior Changes
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Block Diagram
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Interface Specification
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Proposed Implementation Plan
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QA Notes
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Activity
github-actions commentedon Oct 14, 2026
💬 A discussion has been created in Extensibility/Ecosystem:
#154
Please continue community discussion there while this issue remains the authoritative tracking item.
lefred commentedon Nov 4, 2026
Slides from my session proposed during the summit
Marina · signed plugins for MySQL and MariaDB_v.0.3.pdf