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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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Jackson D.

Infrastructure Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2019

"Ideal for web development database management"

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

It's great to use a tool that has a secure database, which is critical to our infrastructure. Other applications may be known to be less secure which is what our primary concerns are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Migration is not the easiest to use, compared to other applications I have used in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zhen S.

Product development specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/10/2019

"The best relational database available"

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

FOSS software so you don't have to worry about licensing when using it, very stable and easy to integrate with almost everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

It's not 100% compatible with MySQL so when migrating databases you have to fully test it in case something important changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

Even if you don't know, you are probably using MariaDB in an indirect way every day, it's the most popular database on the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When I need a database I use MariaDB because it's stable, free and easy to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kanhaiya A.

Prep Chef

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/31/2019

"Excellent Choice for Enterprise"

4/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

MariaDB is something new in the market and toward the starting, I didn't know about making the relocation, but rather it has been extremely easy to use and has demonstrated a great deal of stability and speed. I really like it to be OpenSource with the software under the GPL license. This reduces many costs which gives a point in support while choosing it. I like that it has a large community where there are always people willing to help with any issue. Its design in the servers is quite simple and with very few resources can have the administration operational. I like that the hosting providers have included it at no extra cost, which makes me think of it a lot when I'm going to implement a content manager or an electronic commerce system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Although the community has tried to ensure 100% compatibility with MySQL, it is not entirely true when moving to MariaDB. It is necessary to change some data types that are not available. I didn't like that it is necessary to uninstall MySQL on my development servers in order to install MariaDB. This software is fine for small and medium projects, but it is limited when you need a robust database with many long and frequent queries, so for large projects, it is not a good option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

I believe that any company that has any website or web applications should use this database because it is very fast and amazing at handling large data streams. I recommend it to all my colleagues. At the same time, it is very easy to integrate into any website, and it is also easy to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Unlike many other open source projects Oracle acquired from the Sun acquisition, Oracle does indeed still develop MySQL and to my knowledge, they have even hired new capable developers after most of the original developers resigned. The next major release MySQL 5.7 will have significant improvements over MySQL 5.6. However, the summit log of 5.7 shows that all contributors are @oracle.com. Most commit messages reference issue numbers that are only in an internal tracker at Oracle and thus not open for public discussion. There are no new commits in the last 3 months since Oracle seems to update the public code repository only in large batches post-release. This does not strike as a development effort that would benefit from the public feedback loop and the Linus law of "given enough eyes all bugs are shallow".

MariaDB, on the other hand, is developed entirely in the open: all development decisions can be reviewed and debated on a public mailing list or in the public bug tracker. Contributing to MariaDB with patches is easy and patch flow is transparent in the fully open and up-to-date code repository. The Github metrics for MySQL 5.7 show 24 contributors while the equivalent figure for MariaDB 10.1 is 44 contributors. However, it is not just a matter of code contributors – in our experience, MariaDB seems to be more active also in documentation efforts, distribution packaging, and other related things that are required in day-to-day database administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aby J.

Technical Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/3/2019

"Suitable alternative to Oracle's MySQL"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The open nature of MariaDB is what I liked the most. You can fully see what was applied in recent patches and what they resolved. This is very helpful if a bug comes up and you're trying to figure out if a recent change was the cause. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Openness. I am sure there are some not legit people looking at recent patches and seeing how they can exploit non-updated servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/25/2019

"Great free MySQL alternative"

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

MariaDB is a free professional alternative to MySQL and they Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

There is nothing I can say that I don't like about MariaDB right now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fernando J.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/30/2018

"A simple improvement of MySQL"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The price is also brilliant, that is, without dismantling. Very aware of rescue statistics. Extremely solid to apply in production structures. The exceptional factor I appreciated about MariaDB is that it became very easy to investigate and use. Additionally, the new features are usually faster for MariaDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

It is very difficult to discover what it is that one doesn't like about MariaDB, I suppose the reality is that it is not as scalable as its NoSQL counterparts. The scalability issues arise when the data is in a larger range of TB. This is true for a centralized database and small to medium-sized configurations. Also, from time to time we have faced positive issues with data replication. Additionally, from time to time we face positive issues with data replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

The update to MariaDB has made things much easier for me and for the students as well. Header, footer, etc. We use it as a database engine, which is found in all the famous Linux distributions for Drupal development, especially. Make MariaDB strive to be faster and more reliable than MYSQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it for many other unique portions of the program. We use a MariaDB on our server to host a Data Warehouse. Additionally, many programs like Cloudera use MariaDB as a backend. Small applications from queries to ddbb. This has allowed us to considerably reduce the amount of massive guide improvement that occurs by splitting HTML pages with common structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepika R.

Business Development Executive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/17/2019

"It is one of the most powerful database servers made by the original developers of SQL."

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

It helps in turning data into structured information in a wide array of applications ranging from banking to websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Unlike dislikes, it plays a greater role in enhancing drop-in replacement of MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eric L.

System Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/29/2018

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"Easy to use for many environment especially blogger."

4/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

Cluster function for wiki or WordPress, compatible with existing mysql. Most of the time I use it to serve woocommerce and it did really good. A lot of bash web server installation script may auto implement Mariadb to your server environment by default and compare to other paid DB, e.g. Oracle, it's works good enough for a blogger. It will be a good fit if you install the phpmyadmin for db control and edit. Cluster function for wiki or WordPress, compatible with existing mysql. Most of the time I use it to serve woocommerce and it did really good. A lot of bash web server installation script may auto implement Mariadb to your server environment by default and compare to other paid DB, e.g. Oracle, it's works good enough for a blogger. It will be a good fit if you install the phpmyadmin for db control and edit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Many configs to follow and some old posts on website may confusing me. The cluster function sometimes broken due to some notes reboot/dead and it can't auto recovered. It works ok in most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

If you are looking for a free DB and not under high traffic, this is quite enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In generally, I need to admin multiple Wiki and Wordpress and personal site, most of the time mariadb is still able to handle ecommerce site. Sometime you may need to use object cache to help high Database load. Overall, maraidb is really an easy to use for a non critical site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew F.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/8/2019

"MariaDB is a great MySQL alternative integrated well with Debian"

5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

The fact that it is integrated with the LAMP server package group on the Debian install is great! I can spin up a new server in about an hour and my customers love it! It works almost perfectly like MySQL and is very easy to backup and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

There is not much to dislike about MariaDB. There's nearly no learning curve from MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/19/2019

"how good is mariadb"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MariaDB?

MariaDB is a database management system that may not be the best, but it can be used for projects. It is lightweight yet adheres to the standards of database creation, indexing, table modification, among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

This Database Management System emerged as a result of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which was a very good company. I'm not against free software, but there's always a push towards proprietary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

Continue to improve, but it needs more publicity. It's good but basic. There are applications that I personally don't need, but I recommend it to people who are starting in the programming world; it will work for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is compatible with all versions of MySQL. Once you try it, it's very good indeed. It solved some issues that, unlike MySQL, has some advantages: direct replacement of InnoDB, direct replacement of Federated, and removed by Oracle from MySQL 5.1.55 but included in the MariaDB code up to version 5.5. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.