Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by edent » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 12:09 PM UTC

Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
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Post by T3RMINATED » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:19 PM UTC

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Post by ahofmann » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:38 PM UTC

Oof. What does this mean for us people using mariadb? Is there a big company that uses mariadb enough, that the development of the db is secured?

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Post by felixgallo » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

Shades of Basho (rip). One wonders if there is a curse on open source database companies. Maybe we could call it Data Gravity?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

ahofmann wrote: post #3

Oof. What does this mean for us people using mariadb? Is there a big company that uses mariadb enough, that the development of the db is secured?

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Post by bratao » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

I´m very sad that MariaDB is in this state. MySQL it still a very powerful database. For someone looking for alternatives, I recommend the Percona Distribution of MySQL. https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-serv...

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Post by stefanos82 » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:58 PM UTC

People, relax please!

This is the company we are talking about, not the FOSS-ed version.

If Microsoft has become a Platinum Sponsor for Azure support, you have nothing to worry about; the MySQL team that moved to MariaDB along with Monty will offer their support for you.

See the video by Monty near the end of https://mariadb.org/donate/

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Post by shapefrog » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 1:59 PM UTC

> the SPAC entity

I stopped reading right there - MariaDB (corp) went public via a SPAC in Dec 2022. Hopefully this is nature healing itself and the Corp entity goes to the wall and the Open Source foundation sheds the parasite.

I also hope all the grifters involved wind up broke and homeless.

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Post by lbhdc » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

I was surprised when I saw them go public the other day. It wasn't really clear to me what their business plan was. At the time, I was still under the impression they had a bunch of spac money, but I had a hard time seeing a path for them to keep those coffers full. This seems like a mess.

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Post by wholinator2 » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

I guess i don't fully understand the distinction. So the company is going down, but the open source org is still alive. Did the company do most of the development? If they did was that development available to people using it 'for free'? Why was there a company in the first place, you'd think it would be hard to make money betting on a single open source database.

My only interaction with MariaDB was picking it from a list of possible RDS images because the description basically said, "MySQL but better". Since i was paying AWS to run that service, was there money going to the MariaDB corporation? Or was AWS using the free open source one and pocketing the cash. I'm definitely out of my depth here