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Monty is also the CTO of the MariaDB Corporation, which is a VC-funded entity. I would fully expect him to sing MariaDB's praises in a podcast.

Large companies have come to a different conclusion, at least so far. Among companies with very large database fleets, there's much greater usage of MySQL and Percona Server than MariaDB.

Granted, Linux distributions have leaned more towards shipping MariaDB by default instead of MySQL. This makes sense given that Oracle is, well, Oracle.