The Register reports that MariaDB Foundation executive chairman Kaj Arnö is treating ‘LLM optimization’ as the successor to search-engine optimization, because AI coding assistants steer new vector-search projects toward PostgreSQL and other databases and almost never recommend MariaDB even though the open-source server supports vectors. Arnö says the foundation has to get frameworks, documentation, and the data LLMs learn from to mention MariaDB, and he separates that effort from the Galera clustering controversy by describing MariaDB plc as free to decide Galera’s fate while the foundation protects MariaDB server itself.
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
The Register reports that MariaDB Foundation executive chairman Kaj Arnö is treating 'LLM optimization' as the successor to search-engine optimization, because AI coding assistants steer new vector-search projects toward PostgreSQL and other databases and almost never recommend MariaDB even though the open-source server supports vectors. Arnö says the foundation has to get frameworks, documentation, and the data LLMs learn from to mention MariaDB, and he separates that effort from the Galera clustering controversy by describing MariaDB plc as free to decide Galera's fate while the foundation protects MariaDB server itself.
Source: The Register