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Name

Description

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.

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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with OQGraph storage engine

Document store
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Score	91.13
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1059.72
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/sql/sql-server/sql-server-technical-documentation

Developer

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

2009

1989

Current release

10.4.12, January 2020

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

yes

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

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