Likelihood to Recommend Applications where the users need [to] execute many short queries. With new storage engines such as Aria, which allows to replace MyISAM with some improvements, and XtraDB, which evolves InnoDB. To fuse the legacy features with the features available in NoSQL databases. Connection management, which allows multiplying the number of concurrent accesses. New clustering engines, such as Galera, which allow interesting possibilities for Cloud adoption. Read full review If you have to manage a lot of different databases from different vendors, you could do well by standardizing on this product. It checks all the boxes for a proper database management studio. You would only have to learn one product to manage them all. However, if you are looking to find a good product for a single database vendor, you might be better off finding a tool that was designed specifically for that vendor product.
Read full review 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. Read full review Foreign Key Constraint data viewer! This was a tremendously helpful feature that not many other products have. Just pick a constraint and see the data in the child tables! No setup required! Supports any and every database imaginable. Read full review Cons Driver Support - Some third party applications use database drivers that cause unexplained slowness with MariaDB. This can be worked around by using the MySQL drivers, but it's not clear what causes the problem in the first place. Support - While online communities are helpful in diagnosing problems, there isn't as much professional documentation/support available for MariaDB as some of the other major database options. Data Visualization - It would be helpful if there were more built in options for analyzing statistics and generating reports. Read full review Somewhat laggy performance. Boot up speed was on the slow side and connecting to our database servers was also a little slower than other products. User interface can be a little clunky. Instead of the usual tree view of servers, databases, and schemas, you are presented with lists that you click on and get new windows to pick the new list of data from. Not organized efficiently. Read full review Usability MariaDB is very usable and stable to be used in production settings as an alternative to
MySQL . The shortcomings of SQL are present but well understood in the community, and if the decision were to be made again, I would choose MariaDB over
MySQL on future projects.
Read full review Support Rating We have launched several inquiries to MariaDB support and they have always responded very quickly and have not been tutoring for the duration of the incident/problem.
Likewise, they want to hold constant meetings with the client to get their opinion as well as how they can help.
I see a very human support and concerned about the customer.
Read full review Alternatives Considered MariaDB stacks up the the competition just fine. Due to is ture open source nature we do not have to worry about licencing and spending money on nothing. Moreover, MariaDB does everything that we need to get done. We can run data that is a million rows or many smaller projects on the same environment with little overhead. One of the best features that MariaDB has is the ability of backup or dump data to standard text sql statements. That was one of the reasons why we choose MariaDb because it makes backups or transferring data a snap
Read full review Compared to Microsoft's SQL Management Studio, Valentina studio was comparable, just harder to get used to in the UI department. It ran slightly slower than other products but did save some time with neat features they baked into the product. However, in using DBeaver Community and DBForge Studio for PostgreSQL from Devart, we found different products that the team ultimately decided to use. DBeaver has all of the features we needed most (minus the constraint data viewer) and a more intuitive UI that we were used to. DBForge Studio for PostgreSQL has a very standard Windows look and feel and lacks some features, like database/table designers, but makes up for those shortcomings in the much easier filtering and sorting options right in the data grids. You can even write a query and edit the data returned, which is something we don't see in many of these tools. Our team ultimately settled on the developers using DBeaver and the support team that needs data viewing/editing capabilities using DBForge Studio.
Read full review Return on Investment Low CAPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day Medium OPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day Perfect to use in academic ambient to support researchers and students Read full review It saved time in some areas of finding child data by not having to write queries to find it. The user interface caused some extra training for some users and ultimately caused them to not like using it. Read full review ScreenShots