MariaDB reacquired SkySQL, reuniting the cloud-based DBaaS platform and restoring it to the product portfolio under MariaDB Cloud. The move is intended to meet customer demand for greater flexibility and deployment choice, offering a range of self-managed and fully managed cloud offerings. Analysts say the reacquisition, combined with vectorDB support, signals an effort to provide a coherent cloud story and preserve open-source hybrid deployment without hyperscaler lock-in, while raising questions about roadmap stability. MariaDB Cloud positions itself as a fully managed service with serverless pay-as-you-go and provisioned clusters across major public clouds, plus optional add-ons.
MariaDB, a company that as recently as last year was very much in transition due in part to the fact its new CEO, Rohit de Souza, is a specialist in preparing organizations for acquisition and resale, went in another direction Tuesday by making an acquisition of its own. It brought SkySQL, the cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform which it spun off in late 2023 into an entity that was staffed by the former MariaDB employees who had built and supported the product, back into the fold.
Michael Ni, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research, said, "for database buyers, MariaDB's reacquisition of SkySQL and the addition of vectorDB support are less about dazzling innovation and more about reassuring customers that the company can finally deliver a coherent cloud story." MariaDB, he said, "offers buyers an open-source with hybrid deployment choice without the hyperscaler lock-in. The real question is whether this move stabilizes the roadmap or simply resets the clock on past missteps."
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