MariaDB

MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.

MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.

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http://www.mariadb.com

Milestones

Founded in 2010 IPO via SPAC arrangement in 2022

Investment year

2018

Investment stage

Investment status

IPO

Deal team

Michael “Monty” Widenius

Patrik Backman

Ralf Wahlsten

MariaDB frees companies from the costs and limits of proprietary databases, helping them focus on building innovative, customer-facing applications.

MariaDB is an enterprise open-source database platform engineered to support any workload in any environment. It allows enterprises to rely on a single, comprehensive database for all their needs, which can be deployed in minutes for transactional, analytical, or hybrid use cases. With over 1 billion downloads, nearly 200,000 open-source contributions, and reaching over 1 billion users through Linux distributions, MariaDB is not only meeting the needs of the relational database market, but also helping shape its future.

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