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SkySQL is a fully managed cloud platform designed to run MariaDB SQL database. SkySQL was developed by MariaDB Corporation originally and was spun out as a independent company in Oct 2023.
Engineered for mission-critical applications and enterprise governance, MariaDB SkySQL combines automation with the expertise and experience needed to support production databases in the cloud.
It is designed to run on any public cloud. You can provision standalone DB servers or fully clustered databases running across availability zones (for HA), across global regions or even across cloud providers. It uses the MariaDB's smart proxy Maxscale to offer a number of HA and data consistency features. For instance, failed transactions due to a failure on the primary is auto replayed on other servers, ensures replicas are fully caught up before permitting readers or failover to maximize data consistency.
SkySQL encrypts data everywhere - on the wire and at rest on cloud block storage or blob storage. It offers a simple, elegant and intuitive UI that supports provisioning on mutiple CPU architectures, a range of storage options, from 2 cores to 64 cores, up to 15 replicas, cloud provider native VPC networking, continuous and on-demand backups, auto scaling of storage and vertical/horizontal auto-scaling of compute. It has several built in tools - a dashboard for centralized monitoring and tuning for all provisioned database clusters, custom alerting, DB configuration and user management.
In its prior incarnation, SkySQL was a MySQL and MariaDB service company. In April of 2013 SkySQL merged with the Monty Program, which is headed by Michael Widenius. SkySQL (now MariaDB Corporation) employes a majority of the core developers for MariaDB, who submit code to the MariaDB Foundation.