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Who is behind Maria?

April 26, 2017Maria

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Who is behind Maria?

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The current core team developing Maria is: Technical lead: • Michael “Monty” Widenius – Creator of MySQL and MyISAM Core developers (in alphabetical order) • Christoffer Hall – Works on performance. • Guilhem Bichot – Replication expert, on line backup for MyISAM, etc. • Kristian Nielsen – MySQL build tools, NDB, MySQL server • Oleksandr Byelkin – Query cache, sub-queries, views. • Sergei Golubchik – Server Architect, Full text search, keys for MyISAM-Merge, Plugin architecture, etc. Other developers • Jani Tolonen – Long term employee of MySQL AB; Worked with Monty since 1997. Some people are working for Monty Program Ab, others are working for Sun.