MariaDB Reviews & Product Details

MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.

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Product Description

MariaDB is a high performance, open source database that helps the world's busiest websites deliver more content, faster.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Nina B.

Sr. Manager, Product, Customer Resiliency

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/26/2019

"Easy to use sql database"

4/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

I like the support AWS provides for it and that it’s hosted in the cloud vs my server. Easy to integrate with other aws services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Nothing really, it’s been a great experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek D.

Software Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/9/2019

"MariaDB - Deserves a try"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

I have tried Maria DB once when we were working on a POC, it looked like a good database that sufficed all our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

When we started using it it fulfilled all our needs but we have not tried it in depth to find out things we do not like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Conor C.

Admin

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/26/2019

"Very stable with excellent docs and legacy support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The online docs are excellent, far better than mySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Nothing, when compared to mysql. It is rather retro compared to other RDMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2019

"Using MariaDB as a MySQL replacement"

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

I like that I can use all of the standard toolsets that work with MySQL, and they are interoperable which makes the life of an admin and user much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

I find it confusing that some features only exist in MySQL vs MariaDB, as it makes the decision to use it difficult if you ever wish to migrate between the pieces of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

You do not really need to worry much about compatibility issues if you are already using MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use this for our internal databases (intranet) in order to run certain pieces of open source software which require a database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/23/2018

"MariaDB review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

Great open source DB with plenty of documentation. We use MariaDB exclusively for all our web projects. It uses mainly standard SQL statements, is easy to install, configure, and is well supported in terms of security updates. The price is also great (ie, free!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

There isn't much although if I had to say one thing it would for a better GUI interface to view/edit/delete data. MySQLAdmin could use an interface update, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

Highly recommended open source, scalable database. It uses mainly standard SQL statements, is easy to install, configure, and is well supported in terms of security updates. The price is also great (ie, free!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use MariaDB exclusively as the data store to all of our web/CMS projects. It is relatively stable and easy to set up. It uses mainly standard SQL statements, is easy to install, configure, and is well supported in terms of security updates. Can't be the cost (free) of this product!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert G.

FOSS Implementation Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/3/2019

"Great product for a wide range of database uses."

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The commitment to open source model and th continued development of innovative features and integrations. The Galera synchronous cluster and Node.js MariaDB Connector are two recent ones that come to mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

I wish they would finish the Aria DB engines features to make it on par with the InnoDB engine. I wish they would incorporate either the MyDumper or mysqlpump parallel backup tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

If you have a need of MySQL compatible DB server, I would highly recommend using MariaDB for stability as well as range of features and integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are several different products and professional sites in use that utilize MariaDB. DB performance is a definite benefit. Many application cross compatibility is another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Antonio A.

BDM

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/27/2018

"Perfect SQL database to store OpenStack information."

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

Since MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, the database structure and indexes of MariaDB are the same as MySQL. This allows you to switch from MySQL to MariaDB without having to alter your applications since the data and data structures will not need to change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

To make sure MariaDB maintains drop-in compatibility, the MariaDB developers do a monthly merge of the MariaDB code with the MySQL code. Even with this, there are some differences between MariaDB and MySQL that could cause some minor compatibility issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2019

"Good solid open source DB"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

I have been using maradb for over 5 years it hosts various websites and mail servers that I run. I really like how reliable it is. It is also very easy to use. I have used a lot of databases and i feel that this one is by far the most reliable. Install it setup your schema and away it goes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

There really isn't much to not like, but if i had to be picky it would be connecting it to a mail server. If you are a newbie then you will really need to read into how to use the DB, although once you have done this once you won't forget it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/18/2018

"MariaDB - Switching to mariaDb is easy with an open source feature"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The best thing we talk about MariaDb is it has many several optimization techniques that tend to improve the performance, as it has better query performance.

It allows the parallel execution of commands resulting in multi processing and fast execution of the program.

It has an additional feature of thread pooling, a useful concept for the API.

MariaDb is compatible with almost every different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

The errors mesaages displayed in MariaDb are usually not very cleared.

So if bit description can be added than it will be more useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

Work bit on adding more detail to the errors dispayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

MariaDb has several powerful storage engines. Mariadb is very much compatible with the MySQL version which completely opens up the possibility for us to switch to Mariadb seemlessly without any change required in the source code ,like when there are performance issues with another relational database we can switch to MariaDb. An intersing features that mariadb supports is virtual columns, and with this virtusl columns we are capable of performing the calculations at the database level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2019

"Used to run a mysql server on raspberrypi servers."

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

Open software readily available and easy to install. Quick setup and allows work to progress quickly and efficiently with minimal waiting/downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Must be installed in a linux terminal. Lacks GUI interface as far as I'm aware to install in desktop linux environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.