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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by cblconfederate »

eatonphil wrote: post #11
capableweb wrote: post #6

> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... ) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB ).…

It was my impression that many distros alias mariadb as mysql because it's the capital-f Free version so when you install the default distro mysql you are actually installing mariadb. Edit: in fact I think that if you search "default" on this page these are all the distros that do this. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad...

mysql is also trending down

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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fullstop wrote: post #4

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.

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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by rootlocus »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #47
c0brac0bra wrote: post #16

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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.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Little_Bobby_Tabl...

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by evanelias »

eatonphil wrote: post #68
evanelias wrote: post #67

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The Alpine Wiki isn't written by MySQL/MariaDB experts, and is focused on an installation / very basic administrative perspective; from that angle they're not too different. But they've substantially diverged in terms of internals, advanced administrative functionality, and overall focus. source: I've been working in this space for 19 years, at scales ranging from tiny startups, to largest known mysql installation in…

Yeah true. Any good comparisons you can point us at?

This is from a very reliable source but is 4 years old (pre-MySQL 8): https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-rea...

Separately you can search for "What's new in MySQL 8" type posts, nearly everything there is unique to MySQL. Some of the 5.7 stuff too, like native json column type.

Ditto for recent MariaDB releases, btw! To be fair they have some cool stuff that MySQL lacks, such as system versioned tables, Oracle DB compatibility layer, native column types for uuid and inet6 (IPv6 addresses), etc.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by bduerst »

renewiltord wrote: post #23
capableweb wrote: post #6

> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... ) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB ).…

Bloody hell. MySQL is the juggernaut of DBs. I guess I lived in an echo chamber with my huge Postgres love. But I echo the other comments in that I search for MySQL even if I’m using MariaDB.

MySQL is typically the "M" in LAMP stacks, which was a large portion of the web 2.0 CMS takeover (long, long ago it feels like).

I think SQLite came close to challenging it in the early 2010s with it's mobile app adoption.

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Post by cerved »

mrweasel wrote: post #17
fullstop wrote: post #4

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.

That had to be a difficult talk at the dinner table: Sorry My, but you have to go live with uncle Larry now.

I prefer the sound of SnorreDB

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by eatonphil »

evanelias wrote: post #76
eatonphil wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah true. Any good comparisons you can point us at?

This is from a very reliable source but is 4 years old (pre-MySQL 8): https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/02/mysql-vs-mariadb-rea... Separately you can search for "What's new in MySQL 8" type posts, nearly everything there is unique to MySQL. Some of the 5.7 stuff too, like native json column type. Ditto for recent MariaDB releases, btw! To be fair they have some cool stuff that MySQL lacks, such as system versioned…

Mariadb has an oracle compatibility layer??? Ah but it's at the query layer not the wire protocol. Still very cool.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

evanelias wrote: post #33
b112 wrote: post #22

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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.

Nice tool, hadn't heard of it before.

> These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS

I think there's likely a long tail of small (non-tech) businesses that run WordPress (or Drupal/Joomla) on a traditional shared web host (the kind that only offers PHP and MySQL/MariaDB).

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