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mysql is also trending down
Don't understand why it's taking this long since we have had a far superior free software alternative for many many years now...postgres
One needs good enough, not superior
MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#182> 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 ).…
A more accurate chart may be at DB-engines.com:
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms
MariaDB is the 8th most popular SQL RDBMS.
MySQL is definitely far more popular, as is PostgreSQL, but MariaDB still continues to rise in popularity (107.11 now, up +13.22 in the past year), though its relative ranking remains at #12 on the overall list:
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
[EDIT: MySQL fell -28.69 to 1214.68 in the past year. PostgreSQL rose +58.42 to 609.38 in the past year.]
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#183The 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.
The pronunciation of the name My, or Y in Swe/Fin is somewhat different from English, it's hard to write down what it sounds like but you can use google translate to get somewhat the right thing.
Here, the word yxa (axe) comes close. https://translate.google.com/?sl=sv&tl=en&text=yxa&op=transl...
Edit: Found someone saying the name My, as in Lilla My from the moomins https://forvo.com/word/lilla_my/
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Because I was confused and thought I was replying to someone who didn't understand the "BobbyTables", sibling below. My bad.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#185Any comparisons to postgres?
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Oracle’s OpenJDK not FLOSS?
MySQL is also FLOSS right? It's not about it being FLOSS or not, its about their stewardship of open innovation projects. No surprise that super commercial/ legal heavy company is not great at it. 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.
Doubt. Oracle was the company that did finally open-source java completely, making every single previously paid-only feature found in OracleJDK available for free/libre in OpenJDK, of which they are responsible for 99% of all commits. Also, the language has been doing exceedingly well under their stewardship.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice tool, hadn't heard of it before. > These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS I think there's likely a long tail of small (non-tech) businesses that run WordPress (or Drupal/Joomla) on a traditional shared web host (the kind that only offers PHP and MySQL/MariaDB).
I'd say that ignoring the whales, PHP and MySQL (especially WordPress) are the opposite of the long tail.
I agree, and even some of the whales are using php/MySQL albeit in some cases, highly modified versions of php.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
mysql is also trending down
Don't understand why it's taking this long since we have had a far superior free software alternative for many many years now...postgres
MySQL was popualar for the same reason PHP4/5 was popular.
It let lazy "coders" churn out simple brochure sites without having to think.
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#189> 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 ).…
A more accurate chart may be at DB-engines.com: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms MariaDB is the 8th most popular SQL RDBMS. MySQL is definitely far more popular, as is PostgreSQL, but MariaDB still continues to rise in popularity (107.11 now, up +13.22 in the past year), though its relative ranking remains at #12 on the overall list: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking [EDIT: MySQL fell -28.69 to…
Also, in case anyone was interested, on DB-engines.com, the real ground giving way is for Microsoft SQL Server. While it is still at the #3 spot on the list, its absolute score dropped -73.88 to 949.05 — a year-over-year drop of -7.2% of total.
• MySQL's drop in the index was only 4.5%
• PostgreSQL's rise was 9.5%
• MariaDB's rise was 12.3%
Re: MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
#190Well, at least they won't be selling it to Oracle.