Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

mariadb.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 229 posts

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#91

Post by achillean »

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 does look like it's growing but not at a crazy rate while MySQL has been declining:

https://imgur.com/gallery/XJ3mDzz

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#92

Post by awill »

mdasen wrote: post #70
eatonphil wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I think this was more common years ago. MySQL and MariaDB have diverged more in the years since which means that people want to know which they're installing. For example, RedHat Enterprise Linux used MariaDB as the default in RHEL 7, but RHEL8 splits them back out. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/incompatibilities-and-feature-diff... While they're still quite similar and many of the differences might not be something that…

This was really surprising. Back when RHEL 7 launched, it really looked like MariaDB was going to take over from MySQL. It doesn't look that way anymore. I suspect the reason is that Maria diverged too much, and people didn't want the risk of using something that they couldn't migrate away from.

Regardless, where possible, I use non-relational. When relational is required, I use Postgres.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#93

Post by Eric_WVGG »

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.

Wow. I've spent a lifetime vaguely hating MySQL because I'm bothered by computer software that projects first-person pronouns onto users (Microsoft Windows "My Computer" — um, no, Windows, you're not me, if you're addressing me, it's "Your Computer").

I'm going to be spending a long while contemplating this. My. That's so sweet.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#95

Post by abirch »

pradn wrote: post #28
yrgulation wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am an almost daily user of mariadb. However, when i google anything mariadb query wise i instead type mysql. As the two dialects are nearly identical but there is more documentation available for the mysql search keyword on google.

There's an interesting push-and-pull here. Keep the existing dialect to make it easy to switch, or add differentiating features that may introduce dialect incompatibility. An issue as old as time for SQL DBs.

Microsoft's infamous embrace and extend strategy.

Word Perfect works with Word, but Word doesn't work with Word Perfect.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#98

Post by Bjartr »

galosh wrote: post #89
tarkin2 wrote: post #84

So 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

Seems like plain old competition to me.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#99

Post by tehbeard »

pizza234 wrote: post #82
evanelias wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Curious to learn more about Mroonga. FT has been a sticking point for several sites we've built, and the search daemons (typesense, meilisearch) tend to not as accurate as we'd like.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

#100

Post by abirch »

lbhdc wrote: post #14
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 ).…

I am surprised how low postgres ranks in those trends. I guess I have been in an echo chamber for too long, because my perception was that it was much more pervasive.

Netezza, Greenplum, Red Shift and CoachroachDB are all Postgres forks. Postgre is pretty popular as well, at least for the recruiters who spam me.
Post reply on HN