💸 Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
— TechCrunch
"The commercial entity behind MariaDB raised some $125 million in venture funding through the years to develop premium features and services on top of the core project, eventually going public in December 2022 via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)."
Honestly, there was a time where MariaDB was relevant, and that was when PostgreSQL was weird, MS SQL was costly, and MySQL was on the verge of being proprietary.
Today, MS SQL has low entrance barriers, MySQL still works, and PostgreSQL is versatile and rock solid.
My old man trait is that I think SQL is easier to read and work with than arel, active record et al. Unless you're making libraries, just write the damn query. #rubyonrails#ruby#sql#PostgreSQL#php#mariadb
Today has been an interesting day. What I liked the most was a call this morning with a young but skilled developer. He asked for an upgradable, no-frills setup, fast and reliable. I suggested #FreeBSD and a jail for each service (one for #redis, one for #mariadb, one for #nginx and #php, etc.), but I explained that he would need to embrace the concept of using such a solution.
He responded that he can't wait to learn something new and that he liked my proposal. These are the moments of satisfaction when your experience can be helpful to young and enthusiastic IT enthusiasts who, in turn (if they see the benefits), will promote your choices to their friends and colleagues.
Anyone else remember how #MariaDB company adopting the "Business Source License" for MaxScale made MaxScale and the company super-profitable? No one? Oh yeah, that's because it didn't. #Hashicorp#BUSL#opensource
It seems #MariaDB and #MySQL have entirely diverted into two separate products.
While #Shopware6 lists MariaDB and MySQL in their requirements, their recommendation is MySQL8 - which would be okay, you can have a favorite child.
On the other hand, developers now use functions that are exclusive to MySQL8 - completely disregarding the existence of MariaDB and thus breaking Shopware compatibility with MariaDB itself.
Due to a #SQL compatibility issue of an application, the underlying #MariaDB database needed to be replaced by a #MySQL 8 community database. But when the dump was about to be restored from MariaDB (10.5) into MySQL 8.x, the data import failed.
The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of software runs well on #Linux on #IBMZ. In September 2023 currency was maintained for over a dozen projects, including: #MariaDB#php & #SonarQube