How does the acquisition help?
MariaDB’s acquisition of Codership will mainly aid in data replication, a MariaDB PLC spokesperson said, adding that the focus of the deal was Codership’s Galera Cluster, a synchronous multi-master replication suite for MySQL and MariaDB databases.
What that means is that, using Galera Cluster, MariaDB is able to provide high availability and data integrity by replicating data across all nodes in a cluster, ensuring that transactions are applied consistently on every server.
However, before the acquisition Codership was already a MariaDB partner, and the database provider has offered its subscribers the option to choose Galera Cluster for the last nine years. One third of its customers already purchase Galera Cluster as part of their MariaDB subscription, according to the company.
