I wonder where MariaDB and MySQL will be in like 5-10 years. The whole SPAC thing was weird to hear about and now talk of possible acquisition. I picked MariaD

I wonder where MariaDB and MySQL will be in like 5-10 years. The whole SPAC thing was weird to hear about and now talk of possible acquisition. I picked MariaDB for a freelance project recently, because it seems to work well with everything I self-host: Matomo Analytics, Apache Skywalking APM, BookStack Wiki, Keycloak for user management and for any of the .NET (or Java) services that I'm going to be running. Aside from DDL not being transactional (like in PostgreSQL) it's nice to use, has reasonable resource usage and in some ways is pretty simple (even things like having just databases instead of the database/schema separation, which I don't necessarily need). Also, tooling like MySQL Workbench is great and stuff like Bitnami container images make spinning up new instances easy as can be. It's good that for most basic use cases switching between MySQL and MariaDB is still doable, yet I still hope that both of the projects will stick around and will remain alive. Admittedly, you mostly hear about PostgreSQL on HN - though a litmus test like Google Trends or the DB-Engines Ranking site both suggest that it might be over represented here a bit (lots of cool features to talk about).