[HN Gopher] K1 Buys MariaDB
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K1 Buys MariaDB
Author : Vloeck
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-09-10 22:09 UTC (51 minutes ago)
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| asmnzxklopqw wrote:
| Haha, how many times can one sell mysql?
| miohtama wrote:
| At least twice.
| homarp wrote:
| Monty needs a new kid for his next db
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
| vitus wrote:
| I did not realize MySQL was also named after one of his kids.
| JensRantil wrote:
| Yeah, "My" is actually pronounced wrong by 99% of all MySQL
| users.
| miohtama wrote:
| It must be tough for the business, as more and more web
| development has fallen in love with PostgreSQL. While the support
| business for PostgreSQL exists, I am not sure if they can get
| similar profit margins / earning multipliers as early 2000
| software businesses, even open source ones.
| mathnode wrote:
| Web developers struggle with any database. As soon as you
| introduce read scaling, write scaling, replication, WAN
| latency, the basics of transactions, anything to do with ACID,
| their little minds melt; what do you mean there's no javascript
| library for this? I can't npm install a solution?
|
| In all seriousness though, MySQL stormed scene in the early and
| mid 2000's leaving the giants like Sybase, Oracle, Informix,
| and IBM in the dust. Open source databases paved the way for
| innovation and adoption thanks to contributions from some
| really smart folks all around the world. Postgres, the compsci
| professors wet dream, cannot keep up with the real world
| applications, contributions and basic propositions of scale
| offered by MariaDB let alone MySQL, nor the more esoteric
| options like riak, redis, casssandra, mongodb, etc.
| miohtama wrote:
| > According to Instagram representatives, the number of
| platform users exceeded 2 billion last year. This is quarter
| of all humanity. This mass of people publishes nearly 50
| million photos a day. Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has
| over 600 million followers; singer Ariana Grande has over 380
| million. Talk about huge databases!
|
| > Instagram uses many RDBMSs, but PostgreSQL and Cassandra
| were chosen for the main tasks. The goal was to reduce delay
| and ensure users can easily and comfortably use the
| application.
| lfmunoz4 wrote:
| What are some reasons to use MariaDB over PostgreSQL?
| refset wrote:
| Native bitemporal tables:
| https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/temporal-tables-part-5/
| floating-io wrote:
| My reason has been relative simplicity. PostgreSQL comes off as
| much more complex (though whether that is _actually_ true is
| probably dependent on what you 're doing with it).
|
| I'm also not working with super-high-performance production-
| critical loads, though, so grain of salt and all that.
| Bjartr wrote:
| For a legacy system originally built on MySQL back before
| Postgres was so strong.
| garciasn wrote:
| They're both great systems but there are a few differences
| primarily in small ways for most applications:
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| Maria supports partitioning, Postgres (as of my last knowledge)
| does not.
|
| Unstructured data is more flexible in Maria natively, but
| Postgres can support it in a variety of ways.
|
| You can find lists and lists of head to head comparisons out
| there which will highlight all of the niche differences that
| each brings over the other.
|
| Ultimately either will work just fine for 99% of use cases.
| floating-io wrote:
| For those who are using MariaDB in a business context: does this
| make you more or less likely to choose it for your next project?
|
| I don't know anything about K1, so all I have is confusion (and a
| sudden urge to switch entirely to postgres).
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