DBMS > MariaDB vs. MongoDB

System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. MongoDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare MariaDB and MongoDB with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

Search engine info

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	90.09
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	438.99
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.mongodb.com/manual

Developer

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

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2009

Current release

10.4.12, January 2020

4.2.6, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source info

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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

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

MongoDB Atlas: Deploy a fully managed cloud database on-demand and ready for use in minutes. Available on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free info

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Actionscript info

inofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure info

inofficial driver
ColdFusion info

inofficial driver
D info

inofficial driver
Dart info

inofficial driver
Delphi info

inofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy info

inofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp info

inofficial driver
Lua info

inofficial driver
MatLab info

inofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell info

inofficial driver
Prolog info

inofficial driver
Python
R info

inofficial driver
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk info

inofficial driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

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

Sharding

partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

optional

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
» more

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose data platform, designed to unleash...
» more

Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
» more

The MongoDB Data Platform can be used by developers building OLTP and analytical...
» more

Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
» more

Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather...
» more

Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
» more

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
» more

Market metrics

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

70 million downloads (growing at more than 30 thousand downloads per day). 15,000+...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
» more