Scott Williams 🐧

*Takes a deep breath*

#MariaDB might be the best general database engine ever and it sucks that the for-profit company using the name kept stepping on rusty rakes over and over again so that people in suits who can't distinguish the corp from the foundation pushed for other platforms.

Side note: #PostgreSQL, I want to love you, but I have so many similar feelings about you as I do about coding in rust. You're too pedantic for your own good.

#database #mysql #postgres

Jul 11 at 6:26pmWeb
Show threadScott Williams 🐧1d ago
As an armchair commentary, MariaDB the company should have stuck with SkySQL branding and focused more squarely on commercial support ala Percona, LINBIT, etc., than trying to do weird licensing shenanigans to justify running their cloud hosted stuff. That would have kept them more in step with the open source community/foundation rather than continually stirring up conflict and terrible PR.