{"id":343,"date":"2017-09-29T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/alibaba-is-leading-a-27m-investment-in-mariadb\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:45:18","slug":"alibaba-is-leading-a-27m-investment-in-mariadb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/alibaba-is-leading-a-27m-investment-in-mariadb\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15366365'>Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB | Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Discussion about state of database industry<\/p>\n<p>Various Offerings:<br \/>&#8211; <b>Oracle<\/b> &#8211; for enterprise; large commercial; very tweakable<br \/>&#8211; <b>MySQL<\/b> &#8211; open source, lot of website use this; simpler, but fast and scaleable<br \/>&#8211; <b>MariaDB<\/b> &#8211; alternative to MySQL (owned by Oracle)<br \/>&#8211; <b>SqlServer<\/b> &#8211; Microsoft (Microsoft Access similar)<br \/>&#8211; <b>Postgress<\/b> &#8211; imitation of and direct competitor to Oracle, but open source<br \/>&#8211; <b>SQLite<\/b> &#8211; embedded database vs a database that you connect to over the network (ala Oracle and MySQL); built into the application (i.e. Python); really small and used all over (e.g. your car has prob has multiple copies of this)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB | Hacker News Discussion about state of database industry Various Offerings:&#8211; Oracle &#8211; for enterprise; large commercial; very tweakable&#8211; MySQL &#8211; open source, lot of website use this; simpler, but fast and scaleable&#8211; MariaDB &#8211; alternative to MySQL (owned by Oracle)&#8211; SqlServer &#8211; Microsoft (Microsoft Access similar)&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}