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Name

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

RDBMS for high security requirements

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#262	Overall
	#46	Key-value stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#334	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	91.13
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.51
Rank	#61	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.leanxcale.com

linter.ru/en

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

LeanXcale

relex.ru/en

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

1990

2009

2012

Current release

10.4.12, January 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
SkySQL (The Ultimate MariaDB Cloud): The first and only DBaaS to bring the full power of MariaDB Platform to the cloud, combining powerful enterprise features and world-class support with unrivaled ease of use and groundbreaking innovation.

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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Specific characteristics

Full ACID and full SQL operational database with analytical queries over operational...
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Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Competitive advantages

Linear scalability upto 100s of nodes (tested with 100 nodes and TPC-C).
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High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing (HTAP) requiring an operational database...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

banking/finance/fintech, telco, insurance, traveltech, M2M/IoT, retail
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Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Market metrics

15 beta testers
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing models

annual fee covering license and support based on number of physical cores
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