After Galera Cluster, MariaDB has recently re-acquired SkySQL, an AI-powered, server-less database-as-a-service platform, after transforming into an equity-led private entity. This may bolster MariaDB’s ability to deliver flexible cloud and hydra data management, catering to customers with AI-driven workloads on fully managed and self-managed cloud databases.

Deployment choices will be across public cloud monopolies of AWS, Azure, and Google networks. Intended for new developers looking to build cloud-native, AI-enabled projects and embedded machine learning products.

Forecast also made to present shift among enterprises to cloud-based solutions, for scalability, cost-efficiency and the ability to support distributed teams, aimed at transforming how developers work with operational data and manage complex workflows. It also brings elasticity into agentic capabilities for building GenAI applications. Or possibly we’re seeing re-streaming in a full-circle, after MariaDB began as a community-driven fork of MySQL in 2009, initiated by the original developers of MySQL after Oracle’s acquisition and developer’s trust issues as it is with many such large private entities, empowering the deep-state everywhere!