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MariaDB is the backbone of services relied upon by businesses and people every day. 75% of the Fortune 500 run MariaDB. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 72 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: MariaDB - **Location**: Redwood City, US ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Please contact MariaDB for subscription pricing. MariaDB SkySQL cloud database pricing can be found here: https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/pricing/ - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup and Recovery - Data Import/Export - Data Replication - Multiple Programming Languages Supported ## Integrations (3 total) - Apache Kafka - Microsoft Power BI - Tableau ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.capterra.ae/software/1417/sql-server) — 4.6/5 (1974 reviews) 2. 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The database is free to use, but lightweight in comparison to my sequel so it's perfect for starter to medium sized projects. > > **Cons**: What I like least about MariaDB is that you will definitely need some guidance at first if you are not already familiar with this kind of software, especially when it comes to things like creating a new cluster. If you do run into a snag though the MariaDB community is very helpful and usually answer quick if you need a few pointers. There are also tons of forums and help guides you can refer to if need be. > > My overall experience with MariaDB has been very favorable. I like the clustering features a lot, and it's built in already, which is awesome since it saves me time. I like that I can export my entire database in to MariaDB, be it a little hard to figure out at first but once you get the hang of it you will do better with it the next time round. ----- ### "MariaDB as a drop in replacement for MySQL just works" — 4.0/5 > **Eljakim** | *22 October 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is so much faster than MySQL, especially when we alter the table structure of large tables it just works so much faster. The built in clustering features work quite well as well. > > **Cons**: Starting a cluster is annoying. It's not overly hard, but you have to remember the statements. It would be a lot better if the startup script would say 'cannot attach to cluster, start a new one?' or something similar. Despite the speed, we have had a couple of crashes where we could not startup the server. This has never happened to our MySQL servers, so that was a surprise. It may have been a specific 10.2 version on Ubuntu, because on our 18.04LTS servers this has not happened again. Performance of the cluster when using INSERT IGNORE statements with 100,000s of records that are all duplicates is a lot slower than on MySQL. > > We use it to store all of our data. ----- ### "MariaDB\_01" — 4.0/5 > **Osman** | *27 July 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: it is a free database management system. it is good to store relational data. > > **Cons**: There are many database that will be good alternative to MariaDB ----- ### "MariaDB a good RDBMS" — 4.0/5 > **Rob** | *14 December 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: MariaDB is our personal choice for the RDBMS in our training environment. it is simple to setup on linux as well as windows and is leightweigth yet performant. it starts quickly and does not take up too much space on disk. I use mainly the terminal interface doing simple commands from the mysql command line. I like the fact that it is compatible with mysql (of which it is of course a fork). When i want to have a graphical overview of the databases and tables i use a separate tool called DBeaver to show the ERD and look at the tables. Most of the time we work with a limited number of database records, but also have a complete dataset of all registered vehicles nationally (16+ million records) which is also performing. All within of course our training environment. > > **Cons**: There is nothing I really dislike about it. It performs well, we can use it without incurring cost and it performs and is stable. > > We want to be able to migrate data in our training from a H2 (flat file) database to an RDBMS enviroment that can be shared among multiple servers. Furthermore we want a simple command line where we can use easy commands to create and manipulate data. MariaDB offers all that. ----- ### "MariaDB is more reliable compared to MySQL." — 5.0/5 > **Ali** | *15 February 2022* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: After Oracle which is a company for developing Databases, acquired MySQL which was the most popular database in the world. the Team behind developing Mysql forked the source code under the name MariaDB. to insure Oracle is not going to kill MySQL in favor of it's proprietary database software. which makes MariaDB a very reliable open source community supported project. > > **Cons**: Mariadb seems to work exactly like Mysql with very minor differnces. > > MariaDB is a reliable database management system, open source and backed up by a huge community of users and developers. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/132005/mariadb?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ae/software/132005/mariadb) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | sv | | ----- ## Structured Data