MariaDB Platform

Score9.5 out of 10

79 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for MariaDB Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

High Availability: Many users have praised MariaDB TX Cluster for providing high availability, which is crucial for their business needs. This feature ensures that their databases are always accessible and minimizes downtime.

Performance Improvement: Several reviewers have mentioned the great advantage of using the proxy for MariaDB, MaxScale, as it significantly improves performance. Users appreciate the faster response times and enhanced efficiency they experience when using this feature.

Quick and Helpful Support: The prompt and helpful support provided by the MariaDB team has been highly appreciated by many users. They have stated that their questions were answered quickly and efficiently, making it easier for them to resolve any issues they encountered.

Reviews

30 Reviews

MariaDB - a better MySQL?

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 5, 2025

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

Likelihood to Recommend

MariaDB is ideal when your environment or application is affected by specific MySQL Server bugs that are not being resolved any time soon, and you need a more or less drop in replacement. It is also the best solution when you have limited resource constraints - in my experience performance is improved in limited resource environments when using MariaDB as opposed to MySQL Server.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

MariaDB fast and reliable

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In a distributed application, on each host we have an instance of MariaDB Platform that collects data. Then every day the data is sent to a centralized server with another database. MariaDB Platform offers a great way to decentralize and to keep performances at top, including robustness and availability.

Pros

Easy to install
No big hardware required
Clear configuration files

Cons

Performances not comparable to e.g. Oracle
Indexes not always updated
Recovery procedures in case of dataloss are not linear

Likelihood to Recommend

Of course it depends on the use you need your application, the scenario. Ideal if for "little" applications, not "corporate" ones. So if you are evaluating SQL server VS MariaDB Platform go straight with MariaDB, opensource, easy to move/backup, fast response (with a limited number of users in the same time)

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Simplicity at your service

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a MariaDb Cluster to store 2.2 TB of data with a manual sharding to optimize the access data. We use several engines like Spider, Connect, Federated, MyIsam, Memory and InnoDb. Currently, we are planning [to] add ColumnStore too. We also have a PoC with Galera for HA between managers and we did uses cases with Max Scale.

Pros

Simplicity
Open source
SQL standard

Cons

High cost horizontal scale
Kafka compatibility
JSON management

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Great stability with no DDL operations

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used across the whole organization. The main business problem that it address is to serve as a database for our own and third party applications.

Pros

Great stabiltity
Good performance on retrieving data
Easy configuration
Easy management

Cons

DDL operations do not work well on running MariaDB Cluster
Cluster management from CLI could be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

If you use a MariaDB Cluster, it is well suited in scenarios where your tables don't change, because if you perform DDL operations on a running cluster, you will break it, so you must prepare a downtime window to perform this type of operations. If you don't need a cluster, I think MariaDB Platform works fine in almost every scenario.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

MariaDB: the little DB that could.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MariaDB is used for several in-house solutions with internal and customer visibility as well as a replica repository as the first stage of Analytic data. We use a combination of Galera and Primary Secondary with Maxscale as a load balancer and router. Currently, everything is on-prem but we are looking at migrating to the cloud.

Pros

Read/write split
Connection handling
Transaction replay
Service independence
Stats

Cons

Load Management
Galera Cluster for write heavy applications
Expanded Standard config templates

Likelihood to Recommend

Different services, read-write split, replication are well suited. Write heavy with Galera Cluster presents challenges.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Positive Review for MariaDB

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MariaDB is our production database for clients' VRP.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited
For any relational data, one of the easiest databases to use

Less appropriate
Big Data is lacking.
Performance, manageability of data

Ravi Narine

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

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

RDBMS at its best

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 14, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MariaDB is our primary relational database. We have multiple databases including WordPress and Magento running on it.

Pros

High performance and availability.
Has an active open-source developer community.
Robust transactional support.
Availability of many storage engines.

Cons

MariaDB is no longer completely compatible with MySQL, which makes migration a tedious process.
Needs improvement in caching.
It doesn't support full outer joins.
Implementation of JSON datatype in MariaDB isn't ideal.

Likelihood to Recommend

MariaDB is well suited for running secure ACID-compliant relational databases with vertical scaling support.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

A Tiny Review of MariaDB

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Initially we just use it as in place upgrade for MySQL as part of system regeneration, later it turned out that its performance was far better than the original MySQL that we replaced. Our system was designed to be low maintenance and less human interaction, therefore we need a database system that quite simple and practically maintenance-free.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

We aware that Oracle is half-heartedly developing MySQL, therefore an in-place upgrade to a database system that still supported & actively develop will be needed. For this scenario, MariaDB is fit perfectly.

Alex Anwar

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

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

MariaDB Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using MariaDB Enterprise 3-node cluster setup in production with 10.4.13 version and on top of the cluster using max scale router to load balance read/write OLTP traffic. In the 10.4 version, there is a lot of improvement done for InnoDB performance and especially the changes regarding the instance drop of any table fields. I also found very useful the use of the SQL-mode feature for strict typecasting.

Pros

Strict type checking with default mode on for STRICT_TRANS_TABLES
Instant drop column operation (instant add column is already available), a big part of schema changes can be performed ad hoc
MariaDB 10.4 will benefit from faster extension of VARCHAR columns, additionally, character set and collation changes on non-indexed columns will be instant.
MariaDB 10.4 comes with an option for expiring user password
Galera 26.4 - MariaDB 10.4 will benefit from a new Galera version with features like streaming replication or improved SST thanks to backup locks.
MariaDB 10.4 you can set SQL-mode = MSSQL

Cons

Explain and analyze works as a separate command as compared to other mysql products

Likelihood to Recommend

MariaDB is well suited when it comes to making any DDL changes or DML changes in DB objects.

Shubham Shrivastava

Senior Database Administrator in Information Technology at Friday Media (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

MariaDB economical high availability solution with great support

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 6, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently have 2 installations of MariaDB TX Cluster formed by 3 nodes each installation.

One installation is in the pre-production environment and another is in the production environment.

In MariaDB TX Cluster we have the databases of two of the main applications of the company, which in addition to having internal use also have public use from the internet.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Our installation scenario is a MariaDB cluster composed of 3 nodes to achieve high availability in the service and in this way the application that accesses the backend (MariaDB) is always working and is not down at any time.

To achieve high performance of the application when accessing the database, a MariaDB MaxScale has been mounted that acts as a proxy for queries to the database.

José Javier Dominguez Reina

Técnico in Information Technology at Sadesi (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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