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K1 Acquires Mariadb (www.prnewswire.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

My coworker used to work with Oracle at his last job, and he took an architect position at my company near the start of development. There's a reason we use Postgres at our org...

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.

But if you're on MySQL it's a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I rewrote the last remaining MySQL-based software of mine this year because I didn’t want to have MariaDB just for this one tool. Everything else had already been migrated. PostgreSQL is much faster in my tests.