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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by avrionov »

volsa_ wrote: post #132
IgorPartola wrote: post #96

How many database companies are out there that made it big? How many are based on FOSS? It seems like the lesson of “you can’t make money in a FOSS database (or file system)” keeps being learned and relearned the hard way.

MongoDB would be one that comes to mind which is public traded ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MDB/ )

The market will be challenging because the big cloud players offer their version, but recently there were a few successful database companies:

- MongoDB

- Snowflake

- Databricks

These 3 are probably the biggest, but there are few others which are promising: Cockroach Labs, Materialize, PlanetScale, Yugabyte.

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by zamadatix »

rootlocus wrote: post #75
CoastalCoder wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Wait now I'm confused... Ricky is a diminutive form of Richard and Bobby is a diminutive form of Robert - what's the link?

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by michaelcampbell »

9thbit wrote: post #138
uvdn7 wrote: post #87

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.

We tried using it as a drop in for MySQL docker containers on new ARM Macs and it is very slow, nearly as slow as emulating an x86 MySQL container.

Docker on Mac used to have horrible I/O inefficiencies, which would cripple a DB I'd reckon. Is that still the case?

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Post by Kinrany »

awill wrote: post #92
mdasen wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can you link any good arguments for defaulting to non-relational?

Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

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Post by imjk »

zibzab wrote: post #64

Larry Ellison is not happy today. Edit: let me explain. Larry bought mysql to save oracle from being outcompeted by a young entrepreneur. Who left after 2 years to create an even more competent DB. To add insult to the injury, this market value is below what they paid for mysql 15 years ago, which makes Larry look incompetent.

This is a bad take. Oracle today is worth $216B. Over the last 15 years Oracle, under the leadership of Ellison, has grown 5x in value, returning significant shareholder value. I personally very much dislike Oracle and its products, but I have to respect Larry Ellison for his performance as an executive.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

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...

FreeBSD is odd: you install it with `pkg install mariadb-{server,client}` but you start it with `service MySQL-server start`.

(The package name is moderated by the FreeBSD ports team, but the port (MariaDB) installs its service and gives itself whatever service name it desires.)

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Post by capableweb »

achillean wrote: post #91
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

Cool! Shodan is a very useful tool, too bad it's not worth paying for it for me. As someone who is not a user, would you mind posting the graphs for the rest of the software I put into Google Trends? The full list would be MariaDB, mysql, PostgreSQL, mongodb and SQL Server

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Post by capableweb »

ransom1538 wrote: post #107
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 ).…

Funny. A super vocal wrong opinion dominates. Yeah, no. MariaDB is everywhere, mysql is the master of all stored production content, no one uses postgres, and people just query mysql not MariaDB.

Super vocal? Wrong? I'm not even making any claims, I'm just pointing to data I have available to me, and question their statements with the caveat that probably they have different data available than me.
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