MariaDB Corporation, Redwood City, CA: MariaDB SkySQL

Company: MariaDB Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Bospar
Company Description: MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Customer Data Platform
Nomination Title: MariaDB SkySQL

1. Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):

   Written answers to the questions

2. If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
    
3. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:

   MariaDB SkySQL was first released on March 31, 2020, with the most recent update in January 19, 2022.  

4. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):

   Total 160 words used.

   MariaDB’s Database-as-a-Service, SkySQL, is the ultimate cloud database that meets all of your business needs - not just several. It enables customers to deploy new services faster at a lower cost. Available on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, SkySQL is capable of scaling to millions of transactions per second while saving customers up to 90% of their legacy database cost. SkySQL provides a new generation of modern applications with fast transactions and real-time analytics.

   MariaDB is the fastest growing open source database used by 75% of all Fortune 500 companies around the world. Businesses trust MariaDB solutions and consultative support to make their company successful. MariaDB is the data backbone of services used by millions of people every day. Our mission is to build the database for all. MariaDB offerings allow businesses to realize the benefits of public and private clouds. We are in every major public cloud, major Linux distribution and deployable, reaching millions of technologists.

5. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):

   Total 347 words used.

   SkySQL has received numerous industry award recognitions, including: 

   • Positioned by Gartner® as a Niche Player in the Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems

   • 2021 Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) Readers’ Choice Award for Best Cloud Database

   • InfoWorld’s 2021 Technologies of the Year

   • CRN’s 20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies of the 2021 Cloud 100 

   • Google Cloud Cross-Industry Customer Award

   • Shortlisted for the Cloud Product of the Year in the UK National Technology Awards

   • InsideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List, for companies that exhibit technology leadership, the strength of offering, proven innovation, and more

   • 2022 Constellation ShortList™ for Hybrid-Cloud and Multicloud Analytical Relational Database Management Systems, marking its second consecutive year of recognition

   Quotes from SkySQL customers:

   “... Visibility was a key requirement - to go from being blind on a platform, to seeing what transactions were happening as soon as we migrated from MySQL, we instantly got that visibility. We could see the transactions and latency in the monitoring platforms that you get out of the box with SkySQL. Within two hours of migrating to SkySQL, we began seeing immediate improvements and making informed business decisions because we could easily see and understand what was happening.” - Virgin Media O2 supports over 45M devices & 30M users every day; all of their mission-critical databases run on SkySQL on GCP

   “MariaDB SkySQL has been rock solid for us since day one. We used to self-host on multiple servers. But as our business grew, we started experiencing performance issues and found it very difficult to handle the failovers. We offer all of our customers 100% uptime at any given time. Since migrating to SkySQL on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we’ve ditched our own servers completely. It has worked beautifully for us. We’ve never experienced any issues, no downtime or latency issues.” - Campus Cloud is a cloud-based student information system (SIS)

   MariaDB recently announced intent to become a public company. This limits the data we can provide, so we will refer you to the excerpted slides from our public investor presentation that has been filed with the SEC.

6. You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):

   Total 125 words used.

   1. MariaDB Investor Presentation

   2. MariaDB Press Room

   3. Campus Cloud: Campus Cloud Migrates to MariaDB SkySQL Cloud Database

      1. Campus Cloud/MariaDB press: Securing Student Information Systems Critical to Protecting Data 

   4. FanGraphs: FanGraphs Baseball Hits a Home Run with MariaDB SkySQL and SkyDBA

      1. FanGraphs/MariaDB press: FanGraphs' advanced baseball analytics has a new cloud home: MariaDB

   5. Whitebox: Whitebox Partners With MariaDB SkySQL and SkyDBAs Amid Massive Growth 

   6. Virgin Media O2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lflRxF6zgTk 

   7. Press for SkySQL: MariaDB SkySQL Continues to Gain Industry Recognition

   8. Survey findings:

      1. Cloud Database Trends Survey: Key Cloud Benefits of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for Cloud Migration - insideBIGDATA 

      2. The All-Aboard Trip to the Cloud: 100% Move to Cloud Databases, Survey Shows Big Promise and Surprising Disagreement : @VMblog

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