Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

zerr wrote: post #6

autotune wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because they don't use it: http://techstacks.io/alibaba

What's the reason nowadays to use MySQL/MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?

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Re: Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

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Post by smaili » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

svisser wrote: post #4

For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL

I'm curious what would be their motivation for investing so much in MariaDB when they already have their own? Hedging bets? Encouraging competition?

Re: Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

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Post by Footkerchief » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #8

svisser wrote: post #4

For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL

I'm curious what would be their motivation for investing so much in MariaDB when they already have their own? Hedging bets? Encouraging competition?

Their Github indicates there's cross-pollination:

> Moreover, it includes patches from Percona, WebScaleSQL, and MariaDB.

Re: Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

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Post by buahahaha » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

smaili wrote: post #8

svisser wrote: post #4

For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL

I'm curious what would be their motivation for investing so much in MariaDB when they already have their own? Hedging bets? Encouraging competition?

Getting out of the business of having their own?