Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.
Runa is already a major stakeholder in MariaDB.<p>Recently, the MariaDB board started to pursue additional private equity and a dilution of shares and this is part of Runa's response.<p>More information is available in this SEC filing : <a href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001929589/2335caa4-579c-496d-84e4-009810c2b5f1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001929589/2335caa...</a>
I wonder where MariaDB and MySQL will be in like 5-10 years. The whole SPAC thing was weird to hear about and now talk of possible acquisition.<p>I picked MariaDB for a freelance project recently, because it seems to work well with everything I self-host: Matomo Analytics, Apache Skywalking APM, BookStack Wiki, Keycloak for user management and for any of the .NET (or Java) services that I'm going to be running.<p>Aside from DDL not being transactional (like in PostgreSQL) it's nice to use, has reasonable resource usage and in some ways is pretty simple (even things like having just databases instead of the database/schema separation, which I don't necessarily need). Also, tooling like MySQL Workbench is great and stuff like Bitnami container images make spinning up new instances easy as can be.<p>It's good that for most basic use cases switching between MySQL and MariaDB is still doable, yet I still hope that both of the projects will stick around and will remain alive. Admittedly, you mostly hear about PostgreSQL on HN - though a litmus test like Google Trends or the DB-Engines Ranking site both suggest that it might be over represented here a bit (lots of cool features to talk about).
So, what's the next fork going to be called?<p>Or has the acquirer somehow plugged Monty's favorite end-run around the acquisition game this time around?
Didn't know MariaDB even traded on the market:<p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MRDB/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MRDB/</a><p>It's at penny-stock-level status with low volume.
MariaDB itself is GPL, no?<p><a href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-licenses/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-licenses/</a><p>That makes it a bit different than something like Mongo or Elasticsearch suddenly going with a business friendly license.<p>However, I still would wonder about the health of the committership community independent of this company. The job of a good foundation is to steward the project accordingly, and I wonder if MariaDB has been community or company governed?
All my best wishes to Michael Widenius (Monty) and David Axmark, I hope they make bank (again!), they deserve it!<p>After all of these years I trust them to do the right thing with the open source aspect.<p>I've never met a more competent and energetic technical "salesperson" than David. I got the impression he spent at least a decade travelling full time, evangelizing MySQL (sales) in the 90s/00s. Mad respect. This is what it took. It didn't happen by itself.
Those of you thinking how crazy it is for MariaDB to be valued at just $30M: This company acquired Clustrix[0] in 2018, so it's not even only a MySQL fork.<p>30M is an absurdly small number for the embodied IP. (I worked briefly @ Clustrix, the tech is legit, ~$75M funding burned)<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustrix" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustrix</a>
time to use postgresql which doesn't come with these types of drama.<p><a href="https://www.postgresql.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.postgresql.org/</a>