MariaDB goes private with new CEO as K1 closes acquisition | TechCrunch
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Despite all the changes going on at MariaDB PLC, the MariaDB Foundation, which is responsible for the governance of the MariaDB open source project, is still going strong. The not-for-profit last year signed up Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its first “diamond” sponsor, which should help placate at least some users of the community-driven MariaDB incarnation. Indeed, the MariaDB Foundation is also in the midst of bringing vector search — a major component of the AI revolution — to its main database product, with Amazon one of the main contributors to the initiative alongside MariaDB itself.
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MariaDB goes private with new CEO as K1 closes acquisition | TechCrunch
MariaDB’s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is bought outright by K1