MariaDB acquires Clustrix
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MariaDB acquires Clustrix
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Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#2First they picked up infinidb a while back and have been working to mainline "mariadb columnstore". Now the acquisition of Clustrix and discussion of mainlining that also. It looks like MySQLs separation of the storage engines is paying off in their ability to keep one interface but allowing significantly different backends to meet the different workload requirements.
There has been a lot of work expanding the storage engine API so columnstore can be mainlined and work so spider can progress. I imagine that progress has showed them that they are likely to be able to integrate a much larger and less connected (to existing mariadb) code base like clusterix. I can only open they decide to open source (BSL license?) the clusterix solution eventually.
Between MyRocks (replacing tokudb), columnstore, spider and eventually clustrix seems that mariadb is trying to making the case that they can handle any size workload being through at it.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#3I was unfamiliar with Clustrix. It looks like they've been around a while (YC06) and have some sophisticated technology (http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Distributed+Database...). A horizontally scalable drop in replacement for MySQL is nothing to sneeze at.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#4Clustrix had a great team and technology but nearly everyone responsible for building the product left the company long ago. Even Sergei, the founding CTO, eventually left for Dropbox a few years ago.
It'll be interesting to see if this acquisition results in the interesting clustrix bits becoming libre software.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#5I was unfamiliar with Clustrix. It looks like they've been around a while (YC06) and have some sophisticated technology ( http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Distributed+Database... ). A horizontally scalable drop in replacement for MySQL is nothing to sneeze at. https://www.clustrix.com/
I think it's in-memory. There is mysql-ndb-cluster free.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#6I was unfamiliar with Clustrix. It looks like they've been around a while (YC06) and have some sophisticated technology ( http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Distributed+Database... ). A horizontally scalable drop in replacement for MySQL is nothing to sneeze at. https://www.clustrix.com/
I think it's in-memory. There is mysql-ndb-cluster free.
> I think it's in-memory.
In-memory support was added later, though I'm not sure if it made it into a release as I stopped paying attention around when they started developing that feature.
They originally ran exclusively on specialized appliances having battery-backed write caches. The implementation is all in C using Linux AIO w/epoll. It's a sophisticated, high-performance storage engine.
When everyone shifted to the cloud and stopped owning hardware, Clustrix was forced to add a file-based backend. This still uses the high-performance AIO+epoll engine.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#7I was unfamiliar with Clustrix. It looks like they've been around a while (YC06) and have some sophisticated technology ( http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Distributed+Database... ). A horizontally scalable drop in replacement for MySQL is nothing to sneeze at. https://www.clustrix.com/
There's some technical information still available on Sergei's old company blog:
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#8I was unfamiliar with Clustrix. It looks like they've been around a while (YC06) and have some sophisticated technology ( http://docs.clustrix.com/display/CLXDOC/Distributed+Database... ). A horizontally scalable drop in replacement for MySQL is nothing to sneeze at. https://www.clustrix.com/
I believe many of their founders were ex-Isilon people.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#9Early Clustrix employee here. Holy cow that took a long time! 12 years since the company was founded and finally they exit. I can't wait to exchange my illiquid startup stock for... stock in a _different_ private company.
Re: MariaDB acquires Clustrix
#10Early Clustrix employee here. Holy cow that took a long time! 12 years since the company was founded and finally they exit. I can't wait to exchange my illiquid startup stock for... stock in a _different_ private company.
So it was a 100% stock purchase? Bummer man.