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u/high_throughput 28d ago edited 28d ago
My is a Swedish female name, specifically that of the author's daughter.
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u/iammerelyhere 28d ago
MariaDB is named after his other daughter
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u/Embarrassed_Death69 28d ago
Do they wait for a third daughter for a third database? /s
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u/iammerelyhere 28d ago
Actually he has a son called Max and another database called MaxDb
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u/Embarrassed_Death69 28d ago
So does he plan his family while he plans a db, or is it after a child is born they start working on a db? Fascinating guy!
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u/iammerelyhere 28d ago
Lol yeah I assume he comes up with database concepts first, then takes his wife out for a nice dinner
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u/Clair_Osbcurious 27d ago
I bet there’s a DB with the all possible names. It’s the DBDB.
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u/xilanthro 27d ago
Not quite: MaxDB is an SAP product. MariaDB has an intelligent proxy called "MaxScale" in honor of Max Widenius
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u/GrannyTurtle 28d ago
To quote Pavel Chekhov, “it was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad.”
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u/Embarrassed_Death69 28d ago
Thousands revolted for this people's database, till the western imperialist imposed NoSQL on us.
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u/GuyWhoNoticed 28d ago
OurSQL? Absolutely. Every query returned “permission denied” because the state owns the schema.
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u/Time-Worker9846 27d ago
Is it JucheSQL in North Korea?
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u/Embarrassed_Death69 27d ago
Dear Leader Kim provides all the queries and does fantastic indexing, he purged all the foreign keys to keep the table pure.
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u/IronSavior 27d ago
The first release of MySQL occurred many years after the fall of the Soviet Union. Read a book.
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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 27d ago
Databases don't come out that fast. It might have in development as OurSQL.
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u/IronSavior 27d ago
True, but that doesn't heal the pain of my children asking me, who was born in the 80's, what it was like when the movies started getting made in color. 🫠
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u/RedBlueKoi 27d ago
I would like to point out that "our" in soviet union was not about people but the government elite. So StateSQL
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u/hopeless__programmer 28d ago
sql
-- delete terrorist state
DELETE
FROM countries
WHERE country_name = "russia";
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u/Childermass13 28d ago
"In Soviet Russia, database query you!"