Shades of Basho (rip). One wonders if there is a curse on open source database companies. Maybe we could call it Data Gravity?
> Shades of Basho
Can you please explain? They just ran out of money. They never did a SPAC.
Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
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Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#52I 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...
> MariaDB Plc. appears to be the top contributor to MariaDB's codebase (81.9% of commits since the beginning of 2020)[0].
For context MariaDB existed before 2020, Before the Plc, since 2009, and will continue to exist after.
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#53Shades of Basho (rip). One wonders if there is a curse on open source database companies. Maybe we could call it Data Gravity?
I dunno... EnterpriseDB seems to be around year after year without too much drama.
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#54As unwelcome as I find it, I guess this will cause
people to switch to Oracle MySQL is they need full
$$$$ support for their databases.
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#55I don't wanna get involved in the politics of it all, and yes I love postgres too, I just want to say that Monty is a pretty cool founder.
Several times I've come into their irc channel on libera and asked some dumb question and Monty himself answers me. How many other projects that have lived through an Oracle acquisition can you say that about?
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#56Bit of a nail in the coffin for me as of late. * No async drivers. * Total freezeup bug that only appears when MariaDB is under high load, since mid-2021 (10.6), not yet addressed. * Postgres 15 outperforming MariaDB in both my own SELECT and INSERT benchmarks. Up to double performance for INSERT. * Less and less compatibility with MySQL. Vitess dropping MariaDB. * Postgres has a lighter setup, super fast compile in…
Postgres was the first relational database I came into contact with, Interbase the second and Oracle the third.
Lately I've been writing a REST back end on top of MariaDB at work, and I swear it's going to drive me insane with its arbitrary limitations.
At least SQLite offers something in return that Postgres can't do.
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#57What was the racism, sexism, and abuse at "MariaDB the Company"? A search yields no drama.
Have you tried asking ChatGPT? I'm sure it can come up with something.
This is a reference to another HN item on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35468540
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#58This article twice makes accusations of "racism, sexism, and abuse" without backing it up with facts. Is there any more information about it in the public sphere? Or is it just: "These things are bad and MariaDB is bad, so we'll say they did these things". It certainly seems like the company is going down the toilet, but I'd be dubious about the motivations of an anonymous rant on Medium about a publicly traded compa…
The only article referencing those claims that I could find when Googling just now was this very article. Beyond that, there is a Glassdoor page with negative reviews that suggest the same.
Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
#59Bit of a nail in the coffin for me as of late. * No async drivers. * Total freezeup bug that only appears when MariaDB is under high load, since mid-2021 (10.6), not yet addressed. * Postgres 15 outperforming MariaDB in both my own SELECT and INSERT benchmarks. Up to double performance for INSERT. * Less and less compatibility with MySQL. Vitess dropping MariaDB. * Postgres has a lighter setup, super fast compile in…
What kind of tooling does MariaDB/MySQL have that you miss when using Postgres? I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the ecosystem as I am with Postgres.
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That's pretty good. Excuse the dumb question, but is that the same Michael Howard that runs MariaDB?
If so, it just shows that you should always have another skill you can fall back on, such as street musician. (Personally I'm pretty handy at bagging groceries.)