MariaDB announced the acquisition of Codership Oy, a Finnish-based company, and its flagship product, Galera Cluster, a powerful high-availability database solution that provides high uptime, no data loss, and scalability for database growth. With this deal, the core Galera team and its founders will join MariaDB, enhancing the company’s European engineering and technical support team.
Since its founding nearly 14 years ago, Galera Cluster has prioritized its relationship with MariaDB, including through partnerships and technical integration. And it has been a standard part of MariaDB Server for over nine years.
Over a third of MariaDB Enterprise Platform customers currently utilize Galera Cluster. As the demand for high availability and zero data loss in high-volume production environments grows, the combination of MariaDB Enterprise Platform and Galera Cluster is gaining traction within MariaDB’s customer base.
Galera Cluster works with MariaDB and MySQL database environments. And both versions will be maintained for the time being, and users should experience no change.
Changes since take-private deal: Since last September’s take-private transaction by K1 Investment Management and appointment of Rohit de Souza as MariaDB’s CEO, MariaDB invested heavily in innovation for its database customers and users, including launching open source vector search capabilities, a new MariaDB Enterprise Platform version with advanced enterprise tooling and now acquisition of Galera Cluster synchronous replication technology to bolster its Enterprise Platform capabilities further.
KEY QUOTES:
“High availability and advanced replication methods are a critical area for our enterprise customers. When I speak to our customers, it is clear that these values have always been a strength of MariaDB. By bringing Galera Cluster into the fold formally, we’ll be able to take MariaDB’s high availability and advanced replication power to the next level, as well as deliver an even higher level of support and service to our customers.”
Vikas Mathur, chief product officer, MariaDB
“The acquisition of Galera Cluster marks an exciting step in MariaDB’s growth journey. In a very short period of time, we’ve delivered significant product innovation both to our customers and to our community, while also turning the company into a well-run and profitable business. This acquisition will enable us to accelerate our pace of innovation so we can deliver exceptional value to our customers at an even faster rate.”
Rohit de Souza, CEO, MariaDB
“Joining MariaDB is an exciting step for Codership and Galera Cluster. We know MariaDB users greatly benefit from our high availability solution, and this acquisition will expand our reach, bringing our clustering technology to even more customers.”
Seppo Jaakola, co-founder of Codership, the company behind Galera Cluster
