MariaDB Corporation
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Public Company (Finland) and Corporation (United States) |
| founding | October 1, 2014 as SkySQL |
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 Espoo , Finland and Menlo Park , USA
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| Branch | Information technology |
| Website | mariadb.com |
| Status: February 26, 2019 | |
MariaDB Corporation is the main developer of the free MariaDB database system.
The company was founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius after he first developed the open source database system MySQL and sold it to Sun Microsystems . Sun was later taken over by the competitor Oracle , with which the naming rights of MySQL also passed to Oracle.
Monty Widenius and some of his colleagues then created a fork of MySQL under the name MariaDB and continue to develop it today. To help fund development, the company is providing support and remote DBA services to MariaDB users.
The MariaDB database system of the same name is subordinate to the non-profit MariaDB Foundation in order to ensure that the database system remains free in the long term and cannot be taken over by another company like MySQL.
history
The company was founded by former MySQL developers under the name SkySQL and renamed MariaDB Corporation on October 1, 2014. The latest round of funding brought in $ 9 million, including from Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures . Michael Howard succeeds CEO Patrick Sallner, who left in mid-2015. MySQL and MariaDB creator Monty Widenius is the company's CTO. The company offers support, training and remote administration of MySQL and MariaDB databases.
The company's business model is to use these services to obtain the financial resources to further develop the open source system. On February 26, 2018, the company announced the founding of MariaDB Labs as part of its international user conference M | 18 . Research into innovative database processes is to be carried out here. Initially, the cooperation with Intel is planned with the aim of developing a reference architecture for databases with distributed storage and server landscapes.
conference
The company hosts the annual OpenWorks conference in New York, which is attended by approximately 900 MariaDB users.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MariaDB press release. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 (English).
- ↑ MariaDB Corporation receives fresh capital. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Andrea Held: MariaDB: Remote DBA and Support. In: Informatik Aktuell. October 11, 2016, accessed June 1, 2017 .
- ↑ MariaDB Labs researches new database technologies. In: Informatik Aktuell. February 27, 2018, accessed February 28, 2018 .
- ↑ MariaDB OpenWorks: Big conference on the open source database. In: Informatik Aktuell (magazine) . February 26, 2019, accessed February 26, 2019 .