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MariaDB buys geospacial specialist CubeWerx

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2022

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Database vendor MariaDB has forked out an undisclosed sum for CubeWerx, a geospatial data specialist, in the hope of making make these features easier to build into data-hungry applications.

The company behind the MariaDB database – a fork of MySQL – hopes to add geospatial capabilities to its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL in the not-too-distant future.

Glenn Stowe, the MariaDB product manager for geospatial moving from CubeWerx, said developers wanting to use geospatial data in their application had to take a “DIY approach.”

“It is common to integrate with things like PostGIS, so you'd have your database layer and your application server layer and a whole bunch of other things you needed to put together often with a lot of open source tools and a whole stack of things that weren't really built to fit together,” he said.

“It's very difficult to do things like analytics and security because you have to start to stick layers between the database and the application servers,” he said.

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The CubeWerx solutions itself is based on MariaDB, he said. “We're a big Linux shop, so MariaDB is just the most modern database that's well integrated with all the distros that we use,” Stowe said.

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