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MariaDB Reviews in June 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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MariaDB Reviews & Ratings

4.3

Very Good

Based on 243 ratings & 287 reviews

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Excellent

(186)

Very Good

(94)

Good

(6)

Poor

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Expert's Review

MariaDB emerges as a favored choice for businesses, especially startups and mid-scale operations, seeking an efficient and cost-effective open-source database solution. Users praise MariaDB for its seamless integration with various frameworks and ease of use, making it an optimal choice for relational database needs. Its compatibility with MySQL, fast ...Read more

MariaDB pros and cons

  • Provides excellent speed and performance with advanced features like transaction management and SQL support.

  • Integrates with various frameworks and applications, ensuring ease of use and broad compatibility.

  • Open-source nature saves on licensing costs and supports a strong user community for assistance.

  • Offers a broad range of data management features like encryption, backup/restore tools, and high availability clustering.

  • May have limited options for additional apps and connectors in the Marketplace, affecting advanced functionalities.

  • Some users find the queries and insertions in MariaDB can lead to deadlocks, causing performance issues.

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Sergi M

07/18/18

4.5 out of 5

"Easy to store data with minimum resources"

What do you like best about MariaDB? Better performances than other similar products Developed by open community. Paritioning is nicely implemented. What do you dislike about MariaDB? The graphical user interface should be better Not full compatibility with MySQL Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: Community What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Storing data from an eCommerce multisite. Uses less resources that others. Running multiple DB smoothly

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Darwin F

07/17/18

5 out of 5

"MariaDB "

What do you like best about MariaDB? If you want a MysQL open this is the one you are looking for, it is fast, simple and also light, widely recommended What do you dislike about MariaDB? No me puedo quejar de este manejador de base de datos basado en MySQL, simplemnete cumple con lo que deberia hacer, nunca lo he usado en ambientes muy grandes, Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: use for small projects or as a development database, light and very practical What problems is ...

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Luis R

07/17/18

5 out of 5

"base de datos util"

What do you like best about MariaDB? la base de datos mas usada la ser gratuita What do you dislike about MariaDB? Falta persistencia de datos, no tiene PL/SQL. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: Si quieres levantar un buen proyecto usa Postgres o MongoDB What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? he usado bases de Oracle, Postgres y MongoDB, se podria decir que MariaDB es para gente con pocos recursos y conocimientos

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Anonymous User

07/17/18

4 out of 5

"MariaJesusDB"

What do you like best about MariaDB? MariaDB is a great database management derivated from MySQL. It is a tool well developed that has helped a lot of companies with its awesome versatility and utility. What do you dislike about MariaDB? MariaDB is awesome but there are a better options. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Management and database queries.

CI

Consultant in Biotechnology

07/17/18

4 out of 5

"MariaJesusDB"

What do you like best? MariaDB is a great database management derivated from MySQL. It is a tool well developed that has helped a lot of companies with its awesome versatility and utility. What do you dislike? MariaDB is awesome but there are a better options. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Management and database queries.

AI

Administrator in Information Technology and Services

07/12/18

5 out of 5

"MariaDB is a fantastic successor"

What do you like best? Easy installation and easy configuration. Small installation size on a CentOS server, and queries run fast on the server. What do you dislike? The updates and new features added to mySQL do not make it to mariaDB all the time. So now MariaDB and mySQL have forked away from each other quite a bit. Recommendations to others considering the product: Weigh the options that both Maria and mySQL provide. Since they forked away from each other, they both offer different sets ...

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Anonymous User

07/12/18

5 out of 5

"MariaDB is a fantastic successor"

What do you like best about MariaDB? Easy installation and easy configuration. Small installation size on a CentOS server, and queries run fast on the server. What do you dislike about MariaDB? The updates and new features added to mySQL do not make it to mariaDB all the time. So now MariaDB and mySQL have forked away from each other quite a bit. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: Weigh the options that both Maria and mySQL provide. Since they forked away from each other, they ...

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Anonymous User

07/06/18

4 out of 5

"good opensource relational db, works well"

What do you like best about MariaDB? good opensource relational db, works well What do you dislike about MariaDB? nothing to dislike, does take time to learn all the features of MariaDB What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? our primary storage of data

UI

User in Computer Software

07/06/18

4 out of 5

"good opensource relational db, works well"

What do you like best? good opensource relational db, works well What do you dislike? nothing to dislike, does take time to learn all the features of MariaDB What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? our primary storage of data

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Anonymous User

06/18/18

5 out of 5

"MariaDB"

What do you like best about MariaDB? MariaDB helps us to maintain our databases. We have recently migrated from mysql. This transition has made a big improvement in our productivity. What do you dislike about MariaDB? Nothing. This software has all of the bells and whistles we need. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: Try it you will be pleasantly surprised. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We have solved productivity issues by using Maria

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