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Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by ilyt »

mardifoufs wrote: post #14

I wonder if some distro repos will stop installing mariadb instead of mysql whenever you try to install mysql. Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. (MariaDB.org seems to be still active, but there is now much more uncertainty (imo) compared to the mysql project)

It's literally "lesser evil", as MySQL is owned by Oracle now.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by npteljes »

>This is yet another case of American corporatism failing the open source world.

I believe that simply "This is yet another case of American corporatism failing", full stop. It's a loophole in the system.

It's a good thing that MariaDB is open source, so that a failure like this can't bring the product down.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by adduc »

wholinator2 wrote: post #10

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…

MariaDB Plc. appears to be the top contributor to MariaDB's codebase (81.9% of commits since the beginning of 2020)[0].

[0]: https://mariadb.org/mariadb-contribution-statistics-march-20...

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 »

mardifoufs wrote: post #14

I wonder if some distro repos will stop installing mariadb instead of mysql whenever you try to install mysql. Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. (MariaDB.org seems to be still active, but there is now much more uncertainty (imo) compared to the mysql project)

At a glance, it seems like the open source MariaDB is just fine. It's the commercial company that is dead/dying. This may affect future development on the OSS side, but for now it seems like there's no immediate danger.

As for why it's included over MySQL, it's undoubtedly the fact that MySQL has been owned by Oracle since 2010. Oracle has not been the most friendly to OSS communities in the past.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by flas9sd »

mardifoufs wrote: post #14

I wonder if some distro repos will stop installing mariadb instead of mysql whenever you try to install mysql. Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. (MariaDB.org seems to be still active, but there is now much more uncertainty (imo) compared to the mysql project)

as a database engines fan, I am glad for mariadb to have been the replacement in many distros. This way it got traction and mariadb did interesting things the last few years. Oracle mysql put out interesting releases with v8 again too. While I got hit by some bugs in mariadb, I did also benefit. As long as core developers aren't stranded or go outside sql/databases I don't think there is a technical loss.
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