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MariaDB Reviews

User Rating

4.5/5 (Based on 582 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

  • Excellent

    52.4%
  • Very Good

    41.9%
  • Average

    5.5%
  • Poor

    0%
  • Terrible

    0.2%

User Sentiments

Open Source, MySQL Compatibility, Fast Performance, Ease of Use

Limited Scalability, Replication Issues, UI/UX, Limited Enterprise Support

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Review Summary

Reviewers commend MariaDB for its impressive performance, scalability, and reliability. They appreciate its ease of use, even for those with limited technical expertise. The open-source nature of MariaDB is also a major advantage, allowing users to customize and extend the software to fit their specific needs. Additionally, MariaDB's compatibility with MySQL makes it an attractive option for businesses looking to migrate away from proprietary databases. While some users have reported occasional issues with stability and customer support, the overall sentiment towards MariaDB is overwhelmingly positive.

Pros

  • Opensource, free, scalable, and offers excellent performance under heavy loads.
  • High compatibility with MySQL, making it an ideal replacement for existing MySQL deployments.

Cons

  • Not as widely supported as MySQL, resulting in fewer thirdparty tools and addons.
  • Complex setup and administration for users who are not familiar with database management.

AI-Generated from the text of User Reviews

Reviews
KJ

Kawalpreet J

February 7, 2024 Source: G2.com
"Open Source Database for Startups and Mid Scale Businesses"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

There are hundreds of costs involved when starting a business. You can only pay for a few and use the rest for core business ops. MariaDB is an open-source database used by many big organizations. It is built by devs of MySQL and runs just like it. Setting it up (for example - on AWS, MariaDB is the default database engine), operating it, and finding developers to work on it are easy and cost-effective.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

MariaDB has almost everything plus extra features when compared with MySQL. I don't have anything I dislike.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

First, consider if you are looking for a relational database or NoSQL. If you are looking for a relational database, MariaDB is the best choice right now. It integrates with almost all frameworks and doesn't add business expense.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

MariaDB makes integration with software projects easy. Being open-source it is free and saves the additional business cost of purchasing and managing licenses.

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SF

Sean F

February 1, 2024 Source: G2.com
"Great drop in MySQL replacement"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

When you need a quick relational DB, open source MariaDB is there for you.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Fewer cloud providers offer this as an engine.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

You should first choose an engine supported by your cloud provider of choice. If MariaDB is not an option, choose MySQL, but for any local development go ahead and install MariaDB.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Relational databases are enablers of many different kinds of business applications. By switching to MariaDB over MySQL, we got out from under Oracle's grasp without changing any application logic.

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AU

Anonymous User

November 22, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Beautiful drop-in"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

The speed it adds to mysql is amazing and perfect.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

The unix_socket needs a lot more work for single sign on cappabilities.

Recommendations to others considering MariaDB:

It will improve your database performance

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is used as part of a lamp stack for Web services.

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AU

Anonymous User

October 18, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Great Database"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

There are functions and datatypes which mariadb provides for encryption

There are tools which can easily backup and restore the database both logically and physically

Since it will store data it need to have data storage management and mariadb performs well

Different access levels.premissions are defined for users

It is so extensive that it can be done per user per table

There are many many programming languages which has connectors for MariaDB

For High Availability, we need clustering and mariadb provides it as Galera Clusters

Data is very easily imported and exported

It is used everyday

Very easy to use and implement

Great user community providing support

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

There are some limitations when querying and inserting data which causes deadlocks which is a know issue

other than that there's not much that can be disliked

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using 3 Instances of mariadb as a Galera cluster

It is free, therefore saves cost

The great user community available makes it easy to solve issues

It can be extensively optimized to suit the use

We connect Magento to mariadb as database

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Aditya D

August 21, 2023 Source: G2.com
"Review for MariaDB"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

Maria DB is a relational database, and it is used to store relational tables, we can use the different query on it to create tables and store values inside it and perform different operations depending upon our requirement.

It is easy to use, you can use it with GUI also

It comes as pre install in kali linux operating system

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

No issues found in this database, there may be a little difference in commands for operation on database, compared to other database. This is secure and useful for relational data store

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used to use it for the purpose of saving the data which is related and plain, it provides easy and efficient way to access the data whenever required. We can combine multiple tables and fetch the data.

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LP

Lankit P

August 3, 2023 Source: G2.com
"hands down the best database powering 90% of the internet 💪"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

it is mighty yet it's open source. it truly brings transformative power to the internet landscape. RDBMS, ACID compliance, Triggers, Procedures, Sharding & Speed.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

perhaps an inbuild first-party GUI to interact with the database as it is mainly used by a web application that often has visual web pages. almost always I've used it with PHPMyAdmin so the first party would be much appreciated.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

it gives me powerful RDBMS that frees me from the worry of managing a database and I can dump my data on it and focus on my core business logic. on top of it, it's open source.

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AG

Alberto G

May 18, 2023 Source: G2.com
"MariaDB is the perfect alternative for MySQL"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

Since MariaDB is a derivative of MySQL, you have almost everything from MySQL supported MariaDB, so you can migrate your databases easily to MariaDB. It is fast and reliable.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

I don't have anything to say I dislike about MariaDB. It is an excellent alternative to MySQL; it is usually built-in in some operating systems since it is fully open source.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

MariaDB is a good Relational Database Management System, which has helped me to store data for the projects I've built for my clients and side projects. It is usually built-in in some servers or local environments since it is fully open-source.

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AU

Anonymous User

November 2, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Easy and fast"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

Cloud storage which is easy and fast with autos calling features

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

None Infact this is best as per my recommendation

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves soyrage realted problem and that too on cloud with ease

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NK

Nitish K

September 26, 2022 Source: G2.com
"All in one tool for databasing"
What do you like best about MariaDB?

Easy to install and use

It gets integrated with pysql, was, etc.

Good availability of documentation and support

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

Complex and lengthy queries to view key properties and table relationships

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating databases and managing them

Analyzing datasets

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GK

Gajendra K

May 25, 2022 Source: G2.com
"Great RDBMS if you are looking for open source databases."
What do you like best about MariaDB?

I liked this database and was given higher priority over others because of its great functionality and features which provide much faster speed and stability to use this database. It's an open-source database that is lightweight and we can use this if we are working on any small to medium scale applications.

What do you dislike about MariaDB?

I don't have so much to say but yes there are so many other options also available in the market to use I preferred it because of its cool functionality and stability. You should use it once in your career to have some great experience.

What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked on an application where we created the onboarding/offboarding automation for the organizational employees and we stored our source data in the MariaDB. I realized so many benefits such as ease, faster and having great functionality to access, manage and perform RDBMS operations.

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