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The corpse? It's actively used by many companies in production. Unless you're referring to the branching point, which is more like the younger version than a co

The corpse? It's actively used by many companies in production. Unless you're referring to the branching point, which is more like the younger version than a corpse.

ralph84 4y ago
> It's actively used by many companies in production The problem is not many of them want to pay for it. $40 million in ARR after 13 years and $227 million in funding isn't great.
- siquick 4y ago
  I didn’t even know you could pay for it
  - imhoguy 4y ago
    Same here, first time I hear MariaDB has some corporation behind it, and now even IPO. I thought it is just community fork to avoid greedy Oracle. You just pull it from Linux distro repo or Docker and voila. Now I wonder is it going to end up like MySQL AB?
  - karmicthreat 4y ago
    I don't even know why I would want to pay for it.
    - nickstinemates 4y ago
      They sell support. Source: I was an executive there for 6 months. It was an experience.
      - jamesfinlayson 4y ago
        Does the paid support help decode the useless error messages?
        nickstinemates 4y ago
        Yep. Definitely. Less confusion is a result of paid support.
      - mardifoufs 4y ago
        Tell us more! Please
        nickstinemates 4y ago
        What would you like to know?
        mardifoufs 4y ago
        Is there a reason why revenue figures are so low? Considering some other db products seem to be doing fine?
        nickstinemates 4y ago
        What was/is impressive about MariaDB is their ability to sell to a large swath of users, from Mom&Pop shops to some of the very largest enterprises[1]. In the ServiceNow case, each customer has their own entire db and the magic is in orchestrating all of this. Where MariaDB really shines and drives usage is around their ColumnStore[2]. Some of the downsides from a larger adoption and integration standpoint is the BSL license[3]. Relatively unknown and untested and as a result there's aversion to risk. To get the direct answer to your question, I think a combination of the factors previously in conjunction with revenue being eroded from cloud offering their tech as a service, and SkySQL[4] not making up for the difference are serious inhibitors to revenue. 1: https://mariadb.com/resources/customer-stories/servicenow-massive-scale-with-mariadb/ https://mariadb.com/resources/customer-stories/servicenow-ma... 2: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-columnstore/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-columnstore/ 3: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ 4: https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/ https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/
- sanjayio 4y ago
  I hear you, I just mean I wouldn’t call that a corpse. It’s clearly providing utility. Similar to OSS over two decades making $0 ARR. I imagine it must’ve been hard to monetize given alternatives.
selfhoster11 4y ago
We use it in production. It’s a corpse, all right. The only reason we haven’t gone Postgres is because our codebase is extremely extensive and dependent on MySQL/Maria.

The corpse? It's actively used by many companies in production. Unless you're referring to the branching point, which is more like the younger version than a corpse.

ralph84 4y ago

> It's actively used by many companies in production The problem is not many of them want to pay for it. $40 million in ARR after 13 years and $227 million in funding isn't great.

siquick 4y ago
I didn’t even know you could pay for it
- imhoguy 4y ago
  Same here, first time I hear MariaDB has some corporation behind it, and now even IPO. I thought it is just community fork to avoid greedy Oracle. You just pull it from Linux distro repo or Docker and voila. Now I wonder is it going to end up like MySQL AB?
- karmicthreat 4y ago
  I don't even know why I would want to pay for it.
  - nickstinemates 4y ago
    They sell support. Source: I was an executive there for 6 months. It was an experience.
    - jamesfinlayson 4y ago
      Does the paid support help decode the useless error messages?
      - nickstinemates 4y ago
        Yep. Definitely. Less confusion is a result of paid support.
    - mardifoufs 4y ago
      Tell us more! Please
      - nickstinemates 4y ago
        What would you like to know?
        mardifoufs 4y ago
        Is there a reason why revenue figures are so low? Considering some other db products seem to be doing fine?
        nickstinemates 4y ago
        What was/is impressive about MariaDB is their ability to sell to a large swath of users, from Mom&Pop shops to some of the very largest enterprises[1]. In the ServiceNow case, each customer has their own entire db and the magic is in orchestrating all of this. Where MariaDB really shines and drives usage is around their ColumnStore[2]. Some of the downsides from a larger adoption and integration standpoint is the BSL license[3]. Relatively unknown and untested and as a result there's aversion to risk. To get the direct answer to your question, I think a combination of the factors previously in conjunction with revenue being eroded from cloud offering their tech as a service, and SkySQL[4] not making up for the difference are serious inhibitors to revenue. 1: https://mariadb.com/resources/customer-stories/servicenow-massive-scale-with-mariadb/ https://mariadb.com/resources/customer-stories/servicenow-ma... 2: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-columnstore/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-columnstore/ 3: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ 4: https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/ https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/
sanjayio 4y ago
I hear you, I just mean I wouldn’t call that a corpse. It’s clearly providing utility. Similar to OSS over two decades making $0 ARR. I imagine it must’ve been hard to monetize given alternatives.

selfhoster11 4y ago

We use it in production. It’s a corpse, all right. The only reason we haven’t gone Postgres is because our codebase is extremely extensive and dependent on MySQL/Maria.