MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
> MariaDB, Fast Growing, Popular Open Source Database Software Company<p>No matter how I turn and adjust the parameters, MariaDB seems to be the least popular of the big databases on the market today (<a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=MariaDB,mysql,PostgreSQL,mongodb,SQL%20Server" rel="nofollow">https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...</a>) and looking long-term (2004-preset), it seems like it's popularity is going down, not up (<a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB" rel="nofollow">https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=MariaDB</a>).<p>I wonder what metrics they are looking at to figure out that it's "Fast Growing", under "Viral adoption" and "A leading relational database brand"? Probably they have some insight that I don't, or this is just a press release filled with the usual marketing lies.