> The company won praise from analysts for the engineering behind the products.
A bit like a McDonalds fan praising an upmarket restaurant on the quality of their food.
Ok, bit of a cheapshot. In seriousness, I never fully understood MariaDB - there may have been a concern about Oracle's plans for MySQL but was that really enough to start a for-profit corporation?
And in the meantime, the big cloud vendors did a decent job of offering their own SQL options. And then we have Postgres - it was always technologically superior to MySQL but over the past few years its become as easy to deploy and run as MySQL was.
I just don't see what segment or differentiator remained for MariaDB as a for-profit corporation.
A bit like a McDonalds fan praising an upmarket restaurant on the quality of their food.
Ok, bit of a cheapshot. In seriousness, I never fully understood MariaDB - there may have been a concern about Oracle's plans for MySQL but was that really enough to start a for-profit corporation?
And in the meantime, the big cloud vendors did a decent job of offering their own SQL options. And then we have Postgres - it was always technologically superior to MySQL but over the past few years its become as easy to deploy and run as MySQL was.
I just don't see what segment or differentiator remained for MariaDB as a for-profit corporation.