@lewismenelaws: Michael Widenius created MySQL and named it after his daughter, My. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion… then Oracle bought Sun, and suddenly the database he built was owned by its biggest competitor 👀 So the same day the deal was announced, he forked MySQL into MariaDB — named after his OTHER daughter. He warned Oracle would let MySQL stagnate. The EU approved the deal anyway. Fast forward: MySQL still works, but the community version quietly lost features to Oracle’s paid edition while bug reports piled up. Meanwhile MariaDB stayed fully compatible, so Wikipedia, Google, and most Linux distros just… switched. Then in 2024, MariaDB got bought by private equity. History rhyming. (He also has a third database, MaxDB, named after his son. He only has 3 kids — so don’t expect a fourth.) Follow for more stories like this 🔧 #programming #coding #softwareengineering #database #techtok
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gyhcggfcccf :
No reason to not use postgres
2026-06-04 18:17:04
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glorious.porpoise :
Has he considered not selling to private equity
2026-06-06 07:44:02
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tiktoktoe963 :
So he keeps selling what he’s doing and then forking it to sell it again?
2026-06-05 01:27:09
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Not Telling855 :
Technically this guy has sold out his open source followers twice now.
2026-06-05 11:53:11
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name :
He could…. Not sell out, just a thought.
2026-07-11 08:39:40
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shatap :
who is mongo then?
2026-06-04 19:58:18
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TheFappening :
not quite true, MySQL is very updated. in fact the latest LTS version is MySQL v9.7 LTS
2026-07-31 00:53:20
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Frappe :
Doing it the second time makes it obvious he is the problem 😂
2026-07-07 14:03:09
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Black Wolf :
this Guy just confused me which one is now
SQL and mongo DB
2026-06-04 19:58:30
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kwesi :
so why does he keep selling?
2026-06-04 23:27:33
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youDontKnowMe :
he has a granddaughter Cassandra
2026-06-22 20:46:20
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CallMeABay :
My EES-QUE-ELL, not MY-SEQUEL
2026-06-08 17:45:31
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MimsyMad :
Not quite the full story. There is a commercial company called mariadb.com but the development is still controlled by a foss organisation and is wholly independent.
2026-06-05 08:32:59
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flutterwhiz :
Bro just bored and creating dbs after his offsprings
2026-06-04 22:39:54
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Jericon 🌶️ :
His daughters name is pronounced “myu”
2026-07-02 19:05:42
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💙Rick💙 :
That’s when I started using PostgreSQL.
2026-06-05 12:59:40
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cloverleif :
So basically he found a way to have a project print money by forking it after each sale, and selling the result each time.
2026-06-05 21:42:07
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Jimmy :
so he's just creating databases and selling them off and then when the companies he sell to makes decisions he doesn't like he starts a new one? That's one way to make money I guess, but like it's starting to look like a pattern
2026-06-05 07:42:33
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Neo Lee :
after MaxDB, it's going to be MeDB 😂😂
2026-08-01 16:28:49
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birdly_68 ❌ :
There’s another problem with my SQL, which is Oracle won’t let you put it into a product that you sell. You then have to pay them a royalty or get sued. Unfortunately, my SQL is backed to innumerable legacy systems .
2026-06-05 08:16:06
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the.parten :
im his 4th son. expect partenDB anytime soon...
2026-07-17 01:49:16
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Marcos :
he better make more sons/daughters 🗿
2026-07-20 01:03:51
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hopisan :
This is not entirely accurate. Under Oracle, MySQL (the free version) got ahead of MariaDB. One thing I saw was that it developed much better query optimization. So Oracle did more than keep it alive.
2026-06-06 21:40:36
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Gaagn ཏམུ :
Switched to pg don't wanna go back to mysql maridb or any enterprise DB
2026-06-14 20:40:22
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