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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good performance at scale"
4.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

MariaDB was one of the first of similar relational databases to offer JSON support, and I find they continue to provide more robust features related to JSON usage. It's also nice that it's a drop-in replacement for MySQL which makes migration pretty easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Since it has a smaller user base than MySQL, it might be harder to find tutorials or community examples for all use cases that you might be interested in experimenting with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satyam G.
SG
Satyam G.
Management Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"OpenSource database that is very good"
4.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

The official website offers a lot of add-ons and complements, as well as a great community. DB administrators can access various tools, while DB administration is simple, robust, and compatible. This product has become one of the most trusted in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Maybe it's not convenient for a bit stream of data. Further, it performs relatively well in terms of clustering, and it is constantly updated with new features and functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lankit P.
LP
Lankit P.
AWS DevOps Engineer | Full-stack Laravel Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"hands down the best database powering 90% of the internet 💪"
5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

it is mighty yet it's open source. it truly brings transformative power to the internet landscape. RDBMS, ACID compliance, Triggers, Procedures, Sharding & Speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

perhaps an inbuild first-party GUI to interact with the database as it is mainly used by a web application that often has visual web pages. almost always I've used it with PHPMyAdmin so the first party would be much appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

suleman a.
SA
suleman a.
Information Technology Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"faster, highly available and scalable database"
3.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

What is so special about MariaDB is its speed, highly available features, and fault tolerance ability make it popular in the RDMS category. I have used it in an active-active mode in the Galera cluster, and it works magically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

MariaDB's documentation is so complex to understand, and MariaDB's backup and restore procedure is challenging to understand. The other thing is if the quorum breaks, synchronization of nodes is disturbed and you have to fix the DB backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mritunjay T.
MT
Mritunjay T.
Salesforce Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Database Handling"
4.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

Most efficient Database handler, it is open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Some of the queries do not work. UI can be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danish s.
DS
Danish s.
Professional Freelancer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Maria DB"
4/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

The most helpful thing about this database is that it is fast, reliable, and has a faster execution time. It doesn't support DDL queries. It supports large queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

The least helpful thing and downside of this database are that it is pretty complex. It stores cache so sometimes query execution is slow. It is very complex for beginners to use this database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good Relational Database"
4.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

I mostly like simple SQL query access to store and retrieve data. Transaction management is also excellent. We can set auto commit false/true whenever we do more than one transaction in a single request. Using MariaDB in web application development is very easy and cost-effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Sometimes handling a lot of data in a single table becomes very slow. Also in the case of stored procedures debugging is quite tricky. Also, It could be more beneficial if it supports scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KJ
Kawalpreet J.
IT Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Open Source Database for Startups and Mid Scale Businesses"
5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

There are hundreds of costs involved when starting a business. You can only pay for a few and use the rest for core business ops. MariaDB is an open-source database used by many big organizations. It is built by devs of MySQL and runs just like it. Setting it up (for example - on AWS, MariaDB is the default database engine), operating it, and finding developers to work on it are easy and cost-effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

MariaDB has almost everything plus extra features when compared with MySQL. I don't have anything I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GK
Gajendra K.
General Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great RDBMS if you are looking for open source databases."
5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

I liked this database and was given higher priority over others because of its great functionality and features which provide much faster speed and stability to use this database. It's an open-source database that is lightweight and we can use this if we are working on any small to medium scale applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

I don't have so much to say but yes there are so many other options also available in the market to use I preferred it because of its cool functionality and stability. You should use it once in your career to have some great experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swetha s.
SS
Swetha s.
Appian consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"review for mariadb"
4.5/5
What do you like best about MariaDB?

it comes with new versions with new functions available, it's very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

some of the versions can't be downloaded and once one function is working in one version, it's not working in the latest version. For example, in 10.6.7 the Rownum() function is working but not in the latest one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Improvements in the mechanism of replication

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