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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.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius#Personal_life
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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.
No 90% of wordpress which is 60% of the internet use small local hosted mysql instances. No they don't setup a vm on aws.
Respect.
Is MariaDB code base a fork of MySQL, seems a good business to sell something twice. I would have expected him to have a non-compete after selling it the first time. Anyone know how he pulled this off?
My impression is that MariaDB has good ARM support out of the box. I am not sure about ARM support status of other popular DBs.
A public company will have a board of directors who set the direction of the company; as such what is to stop the board from directing that the license be changed?
> 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 ).…
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.
huh? What kind of return on investment can one expect from a database engine stock(??) Why would anyone buy it?
If you invested you would have made a nice chunk of change. MongoDB does have a hosting service though which could be driving a decent chunk of revenue.
Take that SCO^H^H^H Oracle! Other news: Adoptium/Temurin is doing FLOSS Java distro under the Eclipse Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptium
How is Oracle’s OpenJDK not FLOSS?
Not saying I love Goolge, Facebook or even MS these days, but they seem to play it A LOT nicer that Oracle in that regard.