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MariaDB is going after Oracle in its own back yard with plans for a fresh CEO drawn locally in order to tap funding from A-lister venture capitalists. Patrik Sallner is stepping down as MariaDB Corp’s chief executive for a new job, with the firm’s management now interviewing replacements, The Reg has learned. There are a …

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  1. chasil

    Why do these primitive databases excite people so?

    There is much better technology out there at all levels of the cost spectrum.

    http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2015/07/19/why-you-should-never-ever-ever-use-mongodb/

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Why do these primitive databases excite people so?

      MongoDB has no relationship (pun intended!) to MongoDB. Different critters.

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      1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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        Re: Why do these primitive databases excite people so?

        MongoDB has no relationship (pun intended!) to MongoDB

        er, perhaps you think one of those Mongos should be a Maria? ;-)

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  2. Charlie Clark Silver badge

    The existing CEO is leaving because he's had a better offer and so now they need to find someone else? This is not usually the sound of success.

    MariaDB has been stealing business from MySQL – among them Google – as companies fret about Oracle's control over the project and product.

    Postgres has been stealing more and more valuable business. Oracle is doing a reasonable job of cleaning up some of the weirder shit in MySQL.

    And with Postgres you can have mission critical, ie. must not get lost or corrupted data, with an optimised binary JSON store for the transient shit that fuels the interwebs.

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    1. Sean Nevin
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      Upvoted for Postgres. I switched to it from MySQL for new applications nearly ten years ago and haven't looked back once.

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