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MariaDB Platform

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What is MariaDB Platform?

MariaDB is an open-source relational database made by the original developers of MySQL, supported by the MariaDB Foundation and a community of developers. The community states recent additional capabilities as including clustering with Galera Cluster 4, compatibility with Oracle Database, and Temporal Data Tables, allowing one to query the data as it stood at any point in the past.

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MariaDB - a better MySQL?

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Verified User
Director in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use MariaDB whenever we need a database server compatible with MySQL Server, and do not wish to use Oracle MySQL Server. MariaDB largely has been an excellent choice, particularly when there are documented bugs with Oracle MySQL Server that prevent us from using it in a specific environment or application. Due to its branched codebase and rapid development cycle, MariaDB does not replicate various bugs or performance issues that MySQL Server can exhibit in specific scenarios.

Pros

  • Rapid Release Cycle
  • MySQL Compatibility
  • Speed and Performance

Cons

  • Upgrades can be problematic in specific environments
  • Upgrades are a manual process
  • Documentation is difficult to find

Return on Investment

  • For specific environments we have been able save money by downscaling VMs due to MariaDB's lower footprint compared to MySQL for some of our web applications.
  • As MariaDB is MySQL compatible, we have saved money by not retooling our data layers when using MariaDB for applications that support MySQL.
  • We have had a marginal increase in maintenance and administration costs due to differences in MariaDB's update cycle and its manual upgrade process compared to MySQL.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, FirebirdSQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio, ReSharper, MongoDB, MySQL

Positive Review for MariaDB

Incentivized
Ravi Narine
Director IT in Information Technology at CarData Consultants (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy deployment.
  • Ample amount of tools to be used.
  • Documentation.

Cons

  • Initial setup needs to be improved (determining correct configuration values).
  • If replication fails, needs to be easier to recover.
  • More functionality in the Community Server.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - Technical support is amazing, and fast.
  • Negative - We need a different DB to handle our BigData.

Alternatives Considered

RavenDB

Other Software Used

Elastic Beats (Packetbeat), Logstash, Lucidchart

MariaDB economical high availability solution with great support

Incentivized
José Javier Dominguez ReinaView profile
Técnico in Information Technology at Sadesi (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • High availability through the MariaDB TX Cluster.
  • Performance improvement with proxy for MariaDB, MaxScale.
  • Great support, respond quickly to questions.
  • Constant evolution of the product.

Cons

  • Improving the migration of databases from MySQL to Maria DB, by default they are done easily but as there is an error it is costly to solve it.
  • Some minor bugs in MariaDB version updates.

Return on Investment

  • As a positive impact, indicate that its cost and support is much lower than other databases.

Alternatives Considered

PostgreSQL, Oracle Autonomous Database and MySQL

Other Software Used

MariaDB MaxScale, SQL Diagnostic Manager

Gets the job done without punishing you

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Greg Yantz
Database Administrator in Information Technology at FNI (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Simpler learning curve. MariaDB is a cleaner, simpler system that is (IMO) easier to learn and easier to manage effectively than many other database systems.
  • Lower hardware requirements. After migrating to MariaDB from another database software system, we find that our hardware needs have substantially decreased.
  • MariaDB support is very responsive. It's like they actually care. On the few occasions we've run into technical issues, support has always come through with what we needed. Once it was showing me a relatively new feature the server supported that I wasn't aware of, that, once I was able to properly make use of it helped me resolve a serious production performance issue.
  • Architectural flexibility. As an example, the ready availability of synchronous (Galera) versus asynchronous replication schemes without being locked into one of the other by enormous technical complexity or punitive licensing, allows the customer to find what really works best for their needs.

Cons

  • Complications from the single, global shared ibdata1 (which may be considered more an InnoDB limitation).
  • Backups and restores, especially if you do partial (per db) backups. Actually the backups work very well but the restores are not pleasant.
  • Certain weaknesses in Galera. Because of the way it works it doesn't handle very large single transactions very well (I understand that has improved in recent releases, but that was after we moved away from Galera), and there are altogether too many ways to stall an entire Galera cluster - you will find them.

Return on Investment

  • MariaDB has saved us enormously on licensing compared to our previous DB software vendor.
  • In service, it has enabled us (speaking as the internal DB team here) to provide better service to the other teams in the company as well as our customers, with less staff.
  • The level of hardware required for adequate performance, in our environment, has been much lower. Those savings have been substantial, above and beyond savings on licensing and DBA staffing levels.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Database

A Tiny Review of MariaDB

Incentivized
Alex Anwar
Aerospace IT Specialist in Corporate at CommunicAVIA Pte Ltd (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Aria engine support, the improved MyISAM, it deliver faster performance with less required buffer than InnoDB, also almost a maintenance free table that less fragmented, no need to optimize so often.
  • Based on out experience, having smaller memory requirement.
  • With proper setup, it is fast.

Cons

  • It will nice to have Aria engine be able to perform concurrent SELECT and INSERT/UPDATE like in InnoDB.

Return on Investment

  • None directly, only simplify the complexities as the engineers like it.

Alternatives Considered

Percona Server for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL

Other Software Used

Percona Server for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

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