This is awesome. And if we don't like what the public company does in 6 months, someone can fork the codebase, call it monikadb, rinse, and repeat in a few years!
MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
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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've not seen any company which using a RDBMS, that isn't on PG for the last 5 years Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/my...
I don't think Facebook is hiring a lot of freelance, it's probably not the sort of company the person you're answering to is talking about when they say "here".
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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.
Snowflake is publicly traded
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#194There is something wrong about the website of the company that bought the shares: https://angelpond.com/
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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…
But search queries of everyone using either DB on a day-to-day, high level development basis will probably just search for mysql and get better results. This is definitely what drives this google trend
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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?
Seems to be for me, yes, running a simple yarn install takes 10-15 minutes inside docker while it takes 2-3 minutes tops just using the terminal
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"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.
WordPress is very widely used, but it is not "60% of the internet" (or even 60% of the web) based on any statistics I see anywhere. Some sites say it's 60% of all CMS's; perhaps you may be transposing these stats? Anyway, among WP usage, I would confidently wager that the percentage running in "cheap VPS" setups is declining fast each year. Many different reasons for this. The heyday of smalltime independent bloggers…
They're probably thinking of stats published by W3Techs.
> WordPress is used by 65.3% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 43.3% of all websites.
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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.
Wordpress and PHP in general are very MySQL heavy I think. That is a lot of volume.
MariaDB is more closely aligned with Wordpress and PHP in terms of licensing. I sort of assumed that most users of (FL)OSS who had previously used MySQL would be using MariaDB by now, but based on comments in this topic I must be wrong.
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#199> 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 ).…
> MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases
You linked to a page that charts the relative prevalence of product-names in Google searches.
That's not popularity; that's just googlers choosing the search term they think is most likely to find them the result they want.
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Beware however that this flexibility and initial ease is more often than not a slippery slope into chaos. This article put it really well in my opionion: There are no schemaless databases, just the ones with an explicit schema and the ones with their schema defined in a couple hundred places in code. One of them is slightly easier to start out with, the other to evolve, maintain and communicate (double serving as sel…
The Internet is usually not presented to you in real-time in 3rd normalized form. There are times when you can control the data sources, but many times you will be presented with data in real time, and you cannot spend the time to normalize everything. A lot depends on the data you have, and the data you anticipate. If you have well-controlled data sources, sure, 3rd normalized form and tables with JOINs. But sometim…
To be fair, most data is relational.