MariaDB finishes C round 27 million US dollars financing, Alibaba collar

The establishment of MariaDB, based on the open MariaDB is a European company whose MariaDB database was developed and maintained as one of the most popular open source databases. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in Sweden and the United States, there are approximately 12 million global database users. Including booking.com, Hewlett-Packard, Virgin Mobile, Wikipedia and more. MariaDB is a branch of MySQL. After MySQL was acquired by Oracle, MySQL's father, Monty, created MariaDB under the name Maria, whose daughter Mariah was guaranteed to have available a MySQL-compatible branch that was always open source. Originally Ali premeditated investment for a long time Why Ali so generous investment MariaDB it? Obvious: 1. After all, based on the father of MySQL Monty led development, certainly know the MySQL database weaknesses, and then provide better compatibility and scalability, basically can MySQL database recommendations to the MariaDB database, and MariaDB development speed and upgrade Speed is far from priority MariaDB is open source, growing fast and appealing in the open source community; MySQL community two larger branches is Oracle MySQL and MariaDB, not too many other branches to choose from, if it is to O, this investment is inevitable. It is reported that Aliyun as early as 2012 began to contribute to the MariaDB project, the current MariaDB multi-source replication, thread memory monitoring, data flashback and other important features, there Ali cloud contribution. In particular, AliSQL open source, a large number of advanced features in AliSQL are rapidly merged into MariaDB. Will MariaDB replace MySQL? MariaDB open source, free, basically compatible with MySQL, and the new version of development faster than MySQL. Companies such as Apple, Google, Wikipedia, Red Hat and Slackware have also abandoned MySQL and turned to MariaDB or other databases. There is a hot topic among users: Is MySQL really down? Will MariaDB replace MySQL? Some experts have given a rigorous view: When Oracle MySQL still exists, after all, users use Oracle MySQL version is too much, this time, MariaDB is added as MySQL; MariaDB will replace MySQL if the authority changes. From dolphins to seals, will become more powerful? What is the biggest advantage of MariaDB over MySQL? Review MySQL AB early acquisition by Sun, Monty took away its core Server layer staff, has excellent research and development capabilities, including database resource planning, SQL optimization of the efficiency of the layer, in the community to absorb very fast. After the acquisition of MySQL and MySQL update speed and performance optimization is very slow, a lot of problems to be solved have not been upgraded into it. In other words, the most straightforward difference is that MariaDB can quickly query and process data, and consumes relatively less resources than a MySQL database, and is superior to MySQL databases in terms of speed and support for Unicode ordering. The purpose of MariaDB is fully compatible with MySQL, including the API and command line. It is reported that in the storage engine, MariaDB 10.0.9 version of the use of XtraDB (name code Aria) to replace MySQL's InnoDB. Version, MariaDB until version 5.5, all in accordance with the MySQL version. So anyone using MariaDB 5.5 knows all the features of MariaDB from MySQL 5.5. Beginning with version 10.0.
0 released on November 12, 2012, it no longer follows the MySQL version number. MariaDB 10.0.x is based on version 5.5, plus features that were ported from MySQL version 5.6 and new features that have been developed by myself. Compared to the latest MySQL 5.6, MariaDB includes a wealth of features in terms of performance, functionality, management, and NoSQL extensions. Such as microsecond support, thread pool, sub-query optimization, group submission, progress reports. Write in the end The current move from MySQL to MariaDB is relatively easy. Over time, the difficulty of migration will continue to rise. As a domestic developer, is it necessary to start learning MariaDB now and consider migrating to MariaDB?