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I'm pulling for "RickyDB"
What's wrong with BobbyTables?
It has poor security and storage instability. ;)
MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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The Alpine Wiki has an informal blurb about it. The wiki doesn't seem to think there's a huge difference. https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Mysql#MariaDB_vs_MySQL
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…
The amount of informations around is surprisingly poor; it's hard to find technical information.
At least a significant difference is MariadDB's addition of several specialized engines - see https://mariadb.com/kb/en/storage-engines:
- MariaDB ColumnStore: Column-based
- Mroonga: Full text search
- OQGRAPH: Graph storage
- SphinxSE: Full text search
Where the above use cases are required, it's actually a big deal. A common use case may be FT searches - MySQL's support is a trainwreck, and I have the suspicion that Oracle has little to no interest in it.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#83Wow, this seems like a tiny public company, reminding me of 1990s IPOs...which is great.
Much better than gargantuan privately held companies where all the gains are going to a small group of capital holders.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#84So a distrust of Oracle made someone more than half a billion? Those Oracle lawyers actually did create economic value then. Who would have thunk it.
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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.
> These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS, and on RDS MySQL gets massively more usage than MariaDB.
Do they, do? I expect all small stuff to be on old school VPSes with included managed DBs.
Has the world of cheap PHP hosting finally moved on? I'd be super surprised.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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#87My impression is that MariaDB has good ARM support out of the box. I am not sure about ARM support status of other popular DBs.
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I am sure they'll change their license, like some others have done: https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-plat... https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines... I don't think there is any place for GPL in databases and similar software, specially if it is to be built and run by for-profit companies.
I used to be opposed to GPL at moral level have have since changed my mind on this. It makes sense for anything that is essentially infrastructure -- operating systems, web servers, software firewalls -- to be GPL: improvements at this level are rarely something which gives a specific company a competitive advantage. In the cases where it would, however, I like the idea of dual-licensing so that a GPL project (for ex…
Yeah, but everything should be AGPL now instead of GPL. The software-as-service fiasco that changes the nature of "distribution" to bypass the open source requirements of licenses like GPL highlighted a loophole that corporates haven't hesitated in exploiting. AGPL has temporarily addressed this. However AGPL needs to go one more step and allow changing the license to plug any future loopholes. Right now, many GPL software cannot be automatically upgraded to AGPL license because we have to get permission from all the contributors to change the license. AGPL needs a clause that allows easy upgradation of the license retrospectively to ensure that the core concept can be defended in future too.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#89So a distrust of Oracle made someone more than half a billion? Those Oracle lawyers actually did create economic value then. Who would have thunk it.
There is some deeply perverse insight in this comment and I love it. The principle seems to apply quite generally across much of modern tech. Where are the viable contenders for Google products built on a platform of.. counter-reputation? This concept needs a name
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#90The 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.
Ha.
Actually, I sold you to uncle Larry, but don't worry, I'll be spending more time with your sister.