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MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#162The 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.
Are there any grandkids? Surely someone is procreating to make sure we won't run out of names.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#163Larry 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.
That is hilarious. For reference, Sun acquired MySQL AB in February 2008 for $1 billion.
And Oracle bought Sun in 2010; Widenius got mad and created MariaDB the same day, apparently out of spite.
(I don't think any of the characters were particularly ethical, smart or otherwise commendable... they just did what people do)
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've not seen any company which using a RDBMS, that isn't on PG for the last 5 years, and I'm freelance and bounce around a lot.. Other kinds of DBs it's all over the shop, but yeah, PG seems very dominant here...
I have seen Postgres between 2014 and 2018 at one specific customer, everyone else to where I go it is either Oracle or SQL Server.
It depends pretty much where one bounces around.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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#167> 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 ).…
"Leading" is a meaningless marketing term you use when you can't say "#1". And I say that as a marketer.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Simpler, more flexible data model along with speed / storage efficiency (you’re not updating many indexes so writes are much simpler). Your transaction layer data model should be as flat as possible; enrich with relational data in your analytics systems and data warehouses to optimize query speed.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#169> 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 ).…
HN-specific Trends of DB comments and stories echo your view (in a chamber-like fashion…): MySql popular since early days, Postgres recently growing to overcome it, Maria nowhere to be seen
https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends/?query=%22mariad...
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#170How 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/ )
they are doing OK, but much worse than the private Snowflake, in terms of multiples and growth rate. FOSS is too easy to replicate, so Mongo is most likely earning a lot less than AWS and other cloud vendors from their forks of Mongo.