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

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Investment status

Portfolio

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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