I wonder what the next fork will be called.
Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction
A private equity biz has succeeded in its takeover of MariaDB 18 months after its disastrous IPO. The database company built on a fork of MySQL has been struggling for the last year with a string of alternative takeover proposals as its share-price performance failed to impress. Today, K1 Investment Management, a private- …
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Wednesday 11th September 2024 04:55 GMT HereIAmJH
MariaDB PLC vs MariaDB Foundation
With the talk of forks and new names, I get the feeling that there is some confusion about who owns the database server code. But to be fair, MariaDB.com and MariaDB.org could do a better job of differentiating between MariaDB Enterprise and Community. They link it on MariaDB.com the same way Oracle does with MySQL Enterprise and Community. But Oracle owns MySQL server engine, and MariaDB Foundation owns MariaDB server engine.
If MariaDB PLC went away completely, the only core deficiency of the Community server that stands out to me is encryption at rest. My personal opinion is that it's time for ALL databases to default to encryption at rest and encrypted backups. (which Postgresql doesn't do either) The rest of the Enterprise stuff looks like nice-to-have stuff.