K1 Acquires Mariadb

I’ve never heard of K1.

Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth

I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.

Ah, good to know.

I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.

Exactly. And so it begins.

How the fuck do you “accelerate” something they are already achieving?

Not sure how much of a future it can have even if you slap on some “speed”.

They plan to send the mission into orbit using an North Korean missile, for maximum acceleration.

So MariaDB will explode halfway to Japan?

Hopefully it means more people working on it. But honestly, I use Postgres, so it doesn’t particularly matter to me what “accelerate” means for them.

Lmao he did it again

Hope he got another kid to name that next fork after.

He does!

Say hello to MaxDB!

Well, who is using mysql/mariadb nowadays anyways? If you haven’t made the switch to at least postgres in the past 5 years, you messed up anyways.

Yeah the Open Source version. I doubt that the hosted version is using that. Cloud providers have super fast DB’s that are basically compatible with the MySQL syntax

There still is no documented way to migrate an existing WordPress to PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL plugin assumes a fresh installation, everything else is not assumed to be there.

Nextcloud.

Though I think it has some level of support for postgres by now. I should check on that.

I use NextCloud w/ Postgres and it works completely fine.

Great. It wasn’t too long ago that MariaDb was still the “recommended” option.

nextCloud becomes notably faster when you migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

It’s worked on Postgres for several years now, and it’s the preferred and recommended backend for NC.

As someone who self-hosted it, I can’t say this is true.

The MySQL or MariaDB databases are the recommended database engines.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_database/linux_database_configuration.html

Are you thinking of ownCloud Infinite Scale? NextCloud is still PHP.

My question was ironic, implying that anyone using it in a productive system/software/service is doing a very bad job at software architecture. I avoid any product relying on super slow software pieces.

MySQL sucks, and almost everyone who willingly use it also sucks.

Unpopular opinion?: without wordpress, mysql/mariadb would have died years ago.

There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that’s not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.

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