MariaDB

About MariaDB

Made by the original developers of MySQL. Guaranteed to stay open source.

MariaDB turns data into structured information in a wide array of applications, ranging from banking to websites. It is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. MariaDB is used because it is fast, scalable and robust, with a rich ecosystem of storage engines, plugins and many other tools make it very versatile for a wide variety of use cases.

MariaDB is developed as open source software and as a relational database it provides an SQL interface for accessing data. The latest versions of MariaDB also include GIS and JSON features.

Notable users include Wikipedia, WordPress.com and Google.

Open source success

MariaDB Platform

Do More With Your Data

MariaDB Platform unifies MariaDB TX (transactions) and MariaDB AX (analytics) so transactional applications can retain unlimited historical data and leverage powerful, real-time analytics in order to provide data-driven customers with more information, actionable insight and greater value – and businesses with endless ways to monetize data. It is the enterprise open source database for hybrid transactional/analytical processing at scale.

One Database. Any Workload.

Transactional

MariaDB Platform can be deployed in a transactional configuration with clustering, replication or sharding on top of row-based storage optimized for fast transactions.

Analytical

Or, MariaDB Platform can be deployed for analytics by choosing distributed, columnar storage optimized for interactive, ad hoc analytics – and scaling out as needed.

Hybrid

And for transactional applications with greater analytical requirements, MariaDB Platform can be deployed in a hybrid configuration by choosing both row-based and columnar storage.

Why Now

  • You’ve outgrown your current database
  • You need to keep historical data longer, and use it
  • You need to make analytics available for customers

Business Benefits

  • Data monetization with analytics for customers
  • Faster time to insight with zero-ETL analytics
  • Reduced costs with tech consolidation

Technical Benefits

  • Streamlined data ingestion
  • Workload-based isolation and scaling
  • Hybrid cloud and heterogeneous hardware

Components

  • MariaDB Server
  • MariaDB Cluster
  • MariaDB ColumnStore
  • MariaDB MaxScale
  • Connectors
  • Tools
  • Containers
  • Big data connectors
  • Import adapters

Architecture

MariaDB Platform Architecture Diagram