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

"Migration from MySQL to MariaDB for Digital Signature Web Application"

What do you like best about MariaDB? Simplicity, reliability. TokuDB engine support (data compression). Very fast. Replication is very reliable (and simple to setup). What do you dislike about MariaDB? Had to figure out some details. The one important feature is missing - multiple hard drives support. The data has to be on a single drive. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: It just works and a lot more advanced compare to MySQL. What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that ...

"MariaDB has a great deal of flexibilty with a healthy future ahead of it."

What do you like best about MariaDB? I have used MySQL for years and I really see MariaDB as the future of the MySQL code base. In my prior position its linkages to Cassandra and separation from Oracle were important to us. What do you dislike about MariaDB? The Cassandra connector at the time I used it was a bit limiting. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: I would have others look at what they get with MariaDB, there are some true upgrades with drop in compatibility with ...

"MariaDB has a great deal of flexibilty with a healthy future ahead of it."

What do you like best about MariaDB? I have used MySQL for years and I really see MariaDB as the future of the MySQL code base. In my prior position its linkages to Cassandra and separation from Oracle were important to us. What do you dislike about MariaDB? The Cassandra connector at the time I used it was a bit limiting. Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: I would have others look at what they get with MariaDB, there are some true upgrades with drop in compatibility with ...

" MariaDB is a good Upgrade from MySQL with few compatibility issues."

What do you like best about MariaDB? Upgrading to MariaDB has made our custom built MRP system more robust and improved speed of access. There are also more options for reduncy like Galera cluster which i intend to explore in the near future. What do you dislike about MariaDB? i have yet to find any reasons to dislike MariaDB Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: MariaDB is a better implementation of MySQL than the Oracle version, more stable, more redundantcy options. What ...

"Replication and High Availability"

What do you like best about MariaDB? The set-up of replication is quick and straight forward. If running Windows, then edit the hosts file located in: /windows/system32/drivers/etc On Linux: /etc Add entries for each database server to the hosts files with alias's: 192.168.1.100 server1.db.com 192.168.1.101 server2.db.com Install mariadb on both systems. Edit the 'cnf' file on each system, ...

"replaced informix and mysql with mariadb 4 years ago"

What do you like best about MariaDB? drop in replacement for mysql (storage engines renamed but there); new aria storage engine. back to being open source after mysql/oracle purchase- original engineers and new contributors should succeed to match/pass mysql installations. gradually replacing mysql in popular linux distributions What do you dislike about MariaDB? aria still seems to need more work. overall probably still playing catch-up to postgres but can get there Recommendations to ...

"MariaDB is true open source database worth more than MySQL and for that matter Oracle too."

What do you like best about MariaDB? We like pretty much everything about MariaDB. Easy replacement for MySQL. Text search features, dynamic column etc. What do you dislike about MariaDB? The Java Client support seems to be a bit rough Recommendations to others considering MariaDB: Try MariaDB and you might not want to use any other DB What problems is MariaDB solving and how is that benefiting you? A deployable database solution for our customer deployments with zero "0" amount of ...