Monday, October 28, 2019

MariaDB Database

MariaDB server is a one of the most popular database server in the world.It was made by original founders MySQL database.The users include google,wikipedia and wordpress.com.

The data  of the MariaDB runs in a wide array of applications as data into structures information such as ranging from banking to websites.The advantages MriaDB over MySQL, it is fast , scalable and robust,storage engines have rich ecosystem,plugins.Therefore MariaDB uses in wide variety of uses cases.

MariaDB has developed as open source software and as a relational database.For access the data it provides the interface of SQL.MariaDB is included the GIS and JSON features.

MariaDB database server has published as free and open source software under the license version 2.


Reason for calling as MariaDB

MySQL has come from Monty's first daughter My.Like that it continues the tradition after naming it from name of the Monty's  younger daughter Maria.The name Maria was given initially to a storage engine.


Foundation to the MariaDB

The foundation of the MariaDB is supported to continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem.it has guaranteed that,there is a global contact point for collaboration.And also,community can always rely upon the server.

MariaDB is created by Michael Widenius. He is called as Monty.He was born on 3 March 1962.He is the main author of the original version of MySQL database.He is a founding member of the MySQL AB company and MariaDB corporation AB.



MariaDB database is used the high level languages that are, C,C++,Perl and Bash.

MariaDB is intended to maintain with high compatability with MySQL.It includes as new features,storage engines like Aria,ColumnStore and MyRocks.It is a third party software.The API and the protocol are compatible with those used by MySQL.


Cloud deployment of MariaDB


  • MariaDB is a supported database in Microsoft Azure.
  • It is a supported database in Amazon RDS.
  • And also,it is a supported database in Alibaba Cloud.

MariaDB is used at ServiceNow, DBS Bank,Google,Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation.Several Linux and BSD distributions are included in MariaDB. Such as Arch Linux, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Mageia, open-SUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, OpenBSD and FreeBSD













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