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Name

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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Score	3.07
Rank	#85	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	86.52
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/index.md

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Google

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

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2011

2009

Current release

1.22, May 2019

10.3.15, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

BSD

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Go
Java info

Third party binding
Node.js info

Third party binding
Python info

Third party binding

Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

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

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

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

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

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Specific characteristics

Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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