Intel Capital returned to back a round that took database technology developer MariaDB's overall funding to almost $40m.

MariaDB, a Finland-based open-source database service, has raised $9m from a consortium including Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous US-listed chipmaker.

Venture capital firm California Technology Ventures also invested in MariaDB, which named Michael Howard its CEO and Michael “Monty” Widenius its chief technology officer from the start of January.

Howard was previously chief executive of C9, a predictive analytics company bought by InsideSales. Widenius, was the creator of both MySQL, acquired by Oracle as part of…