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K1 Buys MariaDB

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Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by evanelias »

stackskipton wrote: post #88
evanelias wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The company sold at a considerable loss to shareholders. No one got rich there. Their SPAC was not good and should never have happened. Even if they hadn't sold the company, their stock would have been de-listed anyway, due to being deficient on both market cap and share price. A reverse-split can temporarily fix the latter but not the former. There were, however, multiple interested buyers (at least 3 from what I re…

The motivation for the purchase is Enterprise Database software is extremely sticky. So what I said in my original post, jack up the licensing the costs and cut expenses and squeeze the customer base for more money. It doesn't matter about loss to shareholders, money paid is NOT going to the company, it's going to shareholders unless the company is significant shareholder. K1 has -40Million on Spreadsheet about Maria…

> Enterprise Database software is extremely sticky. So what I said in my original post, jack up the licensing the costs

Nope, that doesn't make any sense in my view. Let's say e.g. the cost of both MariaDB Enterprise and MaxScale is jacked up significantly. Then customers can easily switch back to MariaDB Community Server, and/or get paid support and products from Oracle MySQL, or Percona, or ProxySQL, or Pythian, or Vettabase, or Mydbops, or any number of other companies with significant experience in this exact space.

> and cut expenses

Prior to this sale, MariaDB plc already had major rounds of layoffs, discontinued several product lines, and spun off their cloud database. What do you suggest the new owner is going to cut, specifically?

> money paid is NOT going to the company

That is blatantly obvious, why do you keep repeating it? No one in this thread is saying the money goes to the company. That's not how acquisitions ever work!

> I'll point out the new CEO, while having engineering degrees, seems to be more a business type person.

Looks to me like a very similar profile to their two previous CEOs, except the outgoing one didn't have an engineering degree!

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by AlisdairO »

maxk42 wrote: post #85
AlisdairO wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That link isn't particularly convincing. As far as I can see, the only Postgres test performed on the hardware that the top MariaDB entries had was on a positively ancient Postgres version (9.2.1).

The top-performing Postgres instance among all benchmarks is v. 11.0.1008: https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/advanced-database-ben... And I'm seeing versions tested up through 16.3 which was released in May. In fact even 9.2.1 is less than three years old.

   * In that link, V11 is not the version of Postgres, it's the version of the test. Scroll down to DB Version.
   * Lots of versions are tested, but 9.2.1 is the only version I see on the same hardware that the top MariaDB versions are tested against. The others are on much weaker hardware.
   * Postgres 9.2.1 is 12 years old.
This site is not a good like-for-like comparison.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by derekperkins »

evanelias wrote: post #17
lfmunoz4 wrote: post #7

What are some reasons to use MariaDB over PostgreSQL?

At scale, there are some workloads where it can be a great choice: * InnoDB (default storage engine in MySQL and MariaDB) uses a clustered index, which can handle an extremely high volume of primary key range scan queries * Ability to handle several thousand connections per second without needing a proxy or pool (the connection model in MySQL and MariaDB is multi-threaded instead of multi-process) * Workloads that le…

I very much appreciate your deep knowledge of MySQL, and willingness to share amidst the sea of postgres fans. There's a reason both are popular and widely used.

Re: K1 Buys MariaDB

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Post by whalesalad »

floating-io wrote: post #8

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).

I jumped ship from mysql/mariadb to psql over a decade ago and can't imagine why I would ever look back.
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