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MariaDB vs. MySQL
August 28, 2018

MariaDB vs. MySQL

Dan Mahoney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MariaDB

MariaDB is being used across a division of the company (Aviation division). It is the primary database server for our internal business tools.
  • We are seeing more security releases than we did when we were running MySQL
  • Very large queries complete more quickly on MariaDB than they do on MySQL
  • Setting up Master-Master replication is more straightforward in MariaDB than it is in MySQL
  • MariaDB doesn't yet have a Memcached interface
  • CHECKSUM TABLE can give different results in MariaDB than in MySQL
  • I can't answer this question, as I don't have access to information at that level.
We had previously used MySQL, but our database has grown very large. MariaDB offers faster queries.
MariaDB is a good fit for most cases where MySQL is being considered.

In cases where the database will never get very large, MySQL might be a better choice. Queries can take a little longer in MariaDB if MariaDB is using the default configuration, just because the default config. includes the Aria engine.