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K1 Buys MariaDB

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Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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It must be tough for the business, as more and more web development has fallen in love with PostgreSQL. While the support business for PostgreSQL exists, I am not sure if they can get similar profit margins / earning multipliers as early 2000 software businesses, even open source ones.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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For those who are using MariaDB in a business context: does this make you more or less likely to choose it for your next project?

I don't know anything about K1, so all I have is confusion (and a sudden urge to switch entirely to postgres).

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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post #7

What are some reasons to use MariaDB over PostgreSQL?

My reason has been relative simplicity. PostgreSQL comes off as much more complex (though whether that is actually true is probably dependent on what you're doing with it).

I'm also not working with super-high-performance production-critical loads, though, so grain of salt and all that.

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