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  1. Re:Open source by Vairon · · Score: 3, Informative · on MariaDB CEO Accuses Large Cloud Vendors of Strip-Mining Open Source (zdnet.com)

    Nowhere within the GPLv2 license used by MariaDB does it discuss, require or suggest contributing back to the original authors. Please take a few minutes to read or re-read the GPLv2 license. It will only take you a few minutes. Even if you think you've read it before; read it again. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/libr...

    The license only covers copying, distribution and modification. It makes this explicitly clear. The essence of the license is that you have the right to use, modify and distribute the software. If you distribute the software or derivative works of the software then you must bestow the same rights on those for whom you distribute the software to.

  2. Re:Next job by nickersonm · · Score: 1 · on WordPress Ditches ReactJS Over Facebook's Patent Clause (techcrunch.com)

    You can already run it on MariaDB, which is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL and not owned by Oracle.

  3. Re:Not rocket science by Basje · · Score: 1 · on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com)

    https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mari...

  4. Re:How does this compare with other databases? by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 2 · on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query
    Blockquote from the MariaDB site (notice the terms 'sharded' and 'partition'). Also, I would hazard a guess that the PostgreSQL code for parallel queries is written in C, not something like PHP.

    Shard-Query is a high performance MPP (massively parallel processing) query engine for MariaDB and MySQL which offers increased parallelism compared to stand-alone servers. This increased parallelism is achieved by taking advantage of MariaDB/MySQL partitioning, sharding, common query clauses like BETWEEN and IN, or some combination of the above.

    Shard-Query is implemented with PHP and Gearman.

    Shard-Query is targeted mainly at big data problems, and OLAP queries in general. The primary goal of Shard-Query is to enable low-latency query access to extremely large volumes of data utilizing commodity hardware and open source database software. Shard-Query is a federated query engine which is designed to perform as much work in parallel as possible over a sharded dataset, that is one that is split over multiple servers (shards) or partitioned tables .

  5. Re:and so meanwhile... by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL?

    As long as MariaDB is requiring copyright assignment, there's every reason to believe it will be sold off again the same way MySQL was. The FSF gets away with that for GNU projects because they've never abused contributor trust before. Monty is no FSF, and there's no reason believe MariaDB will remain outside of commercial control any better than MySQL did. I can't believe people are falling for the same trick again.

    PostgreSQL aims for SQL standards conformance as much as possible. It's hard sometimes due to the difficulty of participating in the standard process. The idea that MySQL does a better job in that area is kind of odd though. You'll have to list some sample Postgres "oddities" to be credible with that claim.

  6. Re:Oracle will have the patch when they buy MariaD by greg1104 · · Score: 3, Insightful · on A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs

    Yup, MariaDB is playing the same copyright assignment tricks that Monty used before, so that he could leverage community work yet still sell MySQL as a business. No reason to believe he's doing anything different this time. When the FSF asks for copyright assignment, that's acceptable because they have never breached the trust of their contributors. But when Monty does it, you have to assume he's setting things up so he can cash out again.