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The creator of MySQL named it after his daughter, "My". After it was forked, the fork was named after his other daughter, "Maria". He has three children, so we've got one more go at this with a MaxDB if needed. edit: I was wrong -- He already used MaxDB previously. We're out of names.
Don't forget cousin Postgres.
Have SPACs rebranded as Blank Check Companies?
The other way around. "Blank check companies" have existed for many many years, but were a relatively rare instrument and did very bespoke deals. Most investors never heard of them. In recent years, a standardized deal emerged that became known as a SPAC (and all the recent flavors of the month). If you look in SEC regulations, you'll see references to "blank check companies" all over the place.
It might just be me but recently I have found myself a bit uncertain or nervous about the true compatibility of MySQL and MariaDB. I also find I sometimes don't know which I'm connecting to between all the different systems I'm running...which I used to be quite relaxed about, but now makes me a tad jittery.
They're not drop-in replacements for each other, haven't been for years. Each has some unique features that the other lacks.
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You're thinking of "direct listings" (and even then, Morgan Stanley has done several of them). SPACs are actually fairly inefficient and usually give large windfalls to the SPAC sponsors .
I'm far more OK giving a windfall to the SPAC sponsor who sought out and helped a promising company to merge with and list, than a WS gatekeeper who is paid simply for being in-between a startup and an IPO.
> The Angel Pond SPAC vehicle was founded by CEO and Chairman Theodore Wang, the founder of Puissance Capital Management and Angel Pond Capital and a former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Simon Xie, the founder and Executive Director of Hangzhou Hupan Shannan Capital Management and a co-founder of Alibaba Group.
If you want public money (via SPAC or IPO), you're paying money to "Wall Street" in one form or another.
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I'm pulling for "RickyDB"
Sorry, I know that explaining a joke makes it less funny, but would you mind? I'm really curious now.
huh? What kind of return on investment can one expect from a database engine stock(??) Why would anyone buy it?
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You should use bing or duckduckgo. I've been hearing lately on HN that they are many orders better than Google.
definitely not duckduckgo. bing has been on par, with technical searches but lacking otherwise
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Yet mariadb is what is installed most often for mysql usage requirements.
These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS, and on RDS MySQL gets massively more usage than MariaDB. I build schema management software for MySQL and MariaDB, https://www.skeema.io , used by several hundred companies. Among my userbase, MariaDB is a tiny minority, to such an extent that I wonder if it's worthwhile to continue keeping up with their new quarterly release schedule.
Wow, this sounds extremely useful, great job! Does anyone know anything like this for Postgres?
The creator of MySQL named it after his daughter, "My". After it was forked, the fork was named after his other daughter, "Maria". He has three children, so we've got one more go at this with a MaxDB if needed. edit: I was wrong -- He already used MaxDB previously. We're out of names.
Lucky Monty, he got to sell it twice!