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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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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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Anonymous User

12/29/17

5 out of 5

"Great SQL dbms, now with enhanced data analysis tools."

What do you like best about MariaDB? The multi-master galera cluster solution is awesome and works very well. What do you dislike about MariaDB? Lacks memcache integrated store. But has tokuDB a high speed column storage. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? It is a backend for high traffic websites, including e-learning ones.

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Anonymous User

12/29/17

5 out of 5

"Great SQL dbms, now with enhanced data analysis tools."

What do you like best about MariaDB? The multi-master galera cluster solution is awesome and works very well. What do you dislike about MariaDB? Lacks memcache integrated store. But has tokuDB a high speed column storage. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? It is a backend for high traffic websites, including e-learning ones.

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Administrator in E-Learning

12/29/17

5 out of 5

"Great SQL dbms, now with enhanced data analysis tools."

What do you like best? The multi-master galera cluster solution is awesome and works very well. What do you dislike? Lacks memcache integrated store. But has tokuDB a high speed column storage. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It is a backend for high traffic websites, including e-learning ones.

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Laurent C

12/28/17

4 out of 5

"The number 1 database"

What do you like best about MariaDB? The simplicity of installation, configuration and speed of execution of MariaDB. What do you dislike about MariaDB? Do not run under the different existing OS. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I replaced my old database with MariaDB for flexibility and performance.

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Toby C

12/27/17

5 out of 5

"MariaDB for me!!"

What do you like best about MariaDB? I like the fact that MariaDB is uses the same commands and syntax as MySql and is faster. The ease of use is awesome. There is no learning curve if you are coming from MySql or sqlite. The ability to migrate over from MySQL with ease was a major factor in switching. Everyone in my company that was able to use MySQL and SQLite are able to use MariaDB with no downtime in order to learn a new system. What do you dislike about MariaDB? There is not anything ...

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Toby C

12/27/17

5 out of 5

"MariaDB for me!!"

What do you like best about MariaDB? I like the fact that MariaDB is uses the same commands and syntax as MySql and is faster. The ease of use is awesome. There is no learning curve if you are coming from MySql or sqlite. The ability to migrate over from MySQL with ease was a major factor in switching. Everyone in my company that was able to use MySQL and SQLite are able to use MariaDB with no downtime in order to learn a new system. What do you dislike about MariaDB? There is not anything ...

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Nitish S

12/27/17

3 out of 5

"Technical Architect"

What do you like best about MariaDB? The best part is simplicity with the handling of different database objects. What do you dislike about MariaDB? Some of the important features of relational databases are missing like sequences. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using MariaDB for transactional data at a unit level.

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Koceila B

12/26/17

5 out of 5

"Fast Efficient Secure"

What do you like best about MariaDB? The ability to handle a high amount of data and not feel a negative impact on performance. It feels easy to control, backup, and manipulate the data in command line as well as with nearly any software! What do you dislike about MariaDB? Sometimes it can be a bit finicky setting up for software but that can usually be due to a permissions issue/ Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: I recommend you try it out it's great and easy to work with What ...

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Koceila B

12/26/17

5 out of 5

"Fast Efficient Secure"

What do you like best about MariaDB? The ability to handle a high amount of data and not feel a negative impact on performance. It feels easy to control, backup, and manipulate the data in command line as well as with nearly any software! What do you dislike about MariaDB? Sometimes it can be a bit finicky setting up for software but that can usually be due to a permissions issue/ Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: I recommend you try it out it's great and easy to work with What ...

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Adelle Berzabeth K

12/24/17

5 out of 5

"The best open source database software"

What do you like best about MariaDB? What I like the best is that MariaDB is free, you can install it anytime you needed it without paying anything. It's free and it handles all our business needs when it comes to storage of data and building a webserver What do you dislike about MariaDB? It does not have a dedicated support as it is an open source, although lots of people uses it, there's tons of community forums ready to help us when needed. Recommendations to others considering ...

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