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This might happen if GabeN dies, because it is mostly him and his mentality that leads to consumer friendly decisions inside VALVe

So do stones in video games. And water.

It was. Now compare the benchmark of OLTP tasks and you will be surprised

It does. And that’s why I am afraid of that. Operational costs are important as well. I’d rather have those components individually than integrated into a whole ecosystem. This way I can more easily replace components, which is going to be necessary at some point.

Smear campaign with an open source product? Are you sure you still have a working organ between your ears?

That being said, my recommendation is based on using databases in big data environments for 15 years. But I am glad that your home lab is working fine with MariaDB. Does not mean it is a good product. And your comment just proves my point.

The world? Nah. Just the US.

Avoid MySQL and MariaDB at all cost.

Thanks. That is indeed deeply concerning.

There is a difference between a public figure and a CEO.

Partially agree. But a dumb CEO can be replaced (see Sonos).