Live Data, Real Decisions

MariaDB and Exasol on the Next Standard for Analytics

Michael “Monty” Widenius, co-founder and CTO at MariaDB, joins Mathias Golombek, CTO at Exasol, for a candid conversation about why the gap between transaction and insight has become a business problem – and how MariaDB Exa connects mission-critical transactions with high-speed analytics for fresher data, less ETL complexity, and more deployment freedom.

• Date: 9^th June
• Time: 4:00PM CEST | 10:00AM EDT

The time between a transaction and a usable insight is still too long in many organizations. In this executive interview, MariaDB and Exasol discuss why traditional ETL-heavy analytics creates avoidable delay, complexity, and cost – and how a unified HTAP approach can bring analytics closer to operational data without slowing the applications the business depends on.

What you’ll learn:

• Why community, documentation, and customer obsession shaped Monty’s approach to database innovation.
• Why stale data and ETL complexity now hurt both operational reporting and AI initiatives.
• Where MariaDB Exa is strongest: high-concurrency environments, complex queries, and larger-scale operational analytics.
• How MariaDB and Exasol combine transactional stability with high-speed analytics in a unified architecture.
• Why on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment flexibility still matters for cost, governance, and control.

This session is designed for CTOs, Heads of Data and Analytics, enterprise architects, data platform leaders, and teams running MariaDB-backed operational systems that now need faster dashboards, more responsive analytics, or stronger AI/ML workflows on current data.

Your Speakers

Michael “Monty” Widenius

Co-founder and CTO at MariaDB

Mathias Golombek

CTO at Exasol