<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/superglaze/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Russia's Runa Capital invests $3.4M in database firm MariaDB]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Moscow-based Runa Capital has invested €3 million ($3.4 million) in MariaDB, the open-source database company that offers what <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/03/31/mariadb-adds-nosql-features-to-relational-database-roots/">began as a MySQL fork</a> (Google and Wikipedia are big-name users). Runa, which is headed up by founders of Acronis and Parallels, is already a backer of the Nginx web server and platform-as-a-service outfit Jelastic. In a statement, MariaDB CEO Patrik Sallner said his firm was looking forward to collaborating with Runa and its other open-source portfolio companies in its enterprise push.</p>
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