What was/is impressive about MariaDB is their ability to sell to a large swath of users, from Mom&Pop shops to some of the very largest enterprises[1]. In the ServiceNow case, each customer has their own entire db and the magic is in orchestrating all of this. Where MariaDB really shines and drives usage is around their ColumnStore[2]. Some of the downsides from a larger adoption and integration standpoint is the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Is it worth having an old machine running something like a database server? The answer as always is: it depends. More specifically, it depends on the usage you intend to give to it. There are obvious things for which you cannot repurpose an old laptop. For example, if you want to use it as a storage device for large files or run big data applications or experiments, you might want to use cloud storage, a cloud... - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

There definitely is a technical usecase for blockchain technology Just look at Https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/. Source: over 2 years ago

Https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/ Maintain an immutable, cryptographically verifiable log of data changes. Source: almost 3 years ago

AWS has a cloud implementation of that : https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/. Source: almost 3 years ago

Amazon's QLDB is a blockchain-based database with cryptographically verifiable history. You can audit and prove where every change in the database came from. (Here's the Wikipedia article about the software domain in general; QLDB is just the example from the biggest player). Source: almost 3 years ago