MariaDB Reviews

I use MariaDB in my company for the deployment of web applications. MariaDB serves as a database software for web applications.

The most valuable features of the solution are that it is very stable and reliable. I like the fact that MariaDB is an open-source product and not resource-intensive. MariaDB runs on most of the operating systems of Linux. MariaDB is a cross-platform product, making it a great database choice.

MariaDB is a bit technical product, so whoever uses it will have to read a lot of documentation, which I don't think is a disadvantage of the product as it is just its nature. I believe that open-source products, in general, are a bit more advanced than regular systems. The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues.

I have been using MariaDB for five years.

It is an absolutely stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

Two or three people in my company use MariaDB.

I never had the need to contact the technical support team of MariaDB. I would usually find MariaDB's documentation and details online to read about how to deal with issues. Usually, issues in MariaDB are related to configurations more than stability as long as you make sure you install or use the stable version, which is considered to be a long-term supported system.

I moved from MySQL to MariaDB. MySQL is less maintained compared to MariaDB. Feature-wise and stability-wise, MariaDB is way better than MySQL from Oracle.

The deployment process of MariaDB is easy, provided you go through its documentation.

The solution can be deployed in ten to fifteen minutes.

Users can take care of the deployment part of the product by themselves, though, at times, it may depend on the project size that you plan to support with the software. If a project demands software that offers scalability and very high availability, the deployment process may take an entire day with many experienced engineers. If the deployment process is carried out for a single small system, it takes around fifteen to thirty minutes.

The solution is deployed on both the cloud and on-premises.

Quarterly maintenance is required for the solution. When some security incidents occur, the solution's maintenance may be required. If a security issue related to the system is revealed online, it would need immediate maintenance. Maintenance is required depending on the updates provided by the product, which usually occurs once a month or once a quarter.

One person in the company can take care of the maintenance phase of the product.

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.

MariaDB provides a platform for developing our company's database.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support.

Sharding and the platform's vertical and horizontal extension and growth or scalability are areas with shortcomings that need improvement in MariaDB.

I have been using MariaDB for three years. I am a customer of the solution.

It is a very stable solution.

The solution is not scalable.

Around four people in my organization use the solution.

MariaDB is an open-source community software, meaning it is based on the generosity of others. I rate the technical support a six out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup of MariaDB is easy.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

Regarding the time taken to deploy MariaDB, I would say that in our company, we are still playing around with the platform. Our company is in the middle of a pivot right now, meaning we have plans to change our direction.

MariaDB is an open-source software, meaning I don't need to pay for the product.

I have no objections to the maintenance phase of MariaDB since I feel it is fine and easy.

I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.

MariaDB is a community-supported product because of which I am not familiar with the paid support options that may be available.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

We use the solution for a certain database model. The application helps with recovery.

The solution is open source. The documentation is quite straightforward. It is a flexible database used in many cases, such as central bank systems, simple websites, and IoT projects.

Data continuity could be improved.

The stability is good, but we have received feedback from our review process that there are some weaknesses. For example, if MariaDB is running on our NOS Lake Red Hat and you perform an update, this can cause problems because the update may not be compatible with the OS. Therefore, it is important to keep MariaDB and the OS separate and to upgrade them separately.

The solution’s scalability is terrible. We need an office admin for the maintenance. We have around eighty to a hundred users using this solution.

The documentation is clear so there was no need to talk to technical support.

The initial setup is easy and takes less than an hour to complete. I installed MariaDB and set it up. They want it up and running, and I will give them the connection stream and everything else they need to keep the connection alive.

I recommend using the product. I have no specific advice and no complaints. If someone wants to use it, there’s no better way. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I use MariaDB since my organization has different customers who use different databases. My company caters to the customers' needs depending on the database they want to use.

The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable. My company is satisfied with most of the features of the solution. My company just provides services to customers depending on what they want, so we don't necessarily dig too deeply into why they want it. If a customer asks for a referral or suggestions for a free database, then my company normally tries to push PostgreSQL, a tool we get directly from the vendor.

My company hasn't seen any problems with the solution where it has been running. The solution works fine for the purpose it is meant for, so there are no issues.

MariaDB should provide HA and archive logging. If HA and archive logging are present in the solution, it is hard to find them. The aforementioned details related to HA and archive logging need to be considered for improvement. I haven't had the opportunity to use the features provided by the solution since I don't know how to see them.

I have been using MariaDB for a couple of years. My company operates as a consultant offering support for the solution.

It is a stable solution. I haven't seen any stability issues for the purpose MariaDB is meant to function.

In my company, the instance related to MariaDB is fairly small, so I can't comment much on its scalability.

For MariaDB, my company has only one customer who uses it for a single instance, which is about 20 GB of data at the moment.

I haven't had the need to contact the solution's technical support.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

MariaDB can be deployed in a day.

My company uses the free version of the solution.

With PostgreSQL, it's simply the archive logging functionality and remote hard clustering capabilities.

My company is not familiar with how the functionalities of PostgreSQL would work for MariaDB or MySQL.

I would tell those planning to use the solution that it is pretty much the same as MySQL, but since my company has dealt with only one instance in MariaDB, I can't say much about it.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

My company provides solutions for banks, credit card companies, and other enterprises in the financial industry. 

MariaDB is a fast and flexible tool. 

Integration with AWS could be improved. 

I rate MariaDB nine out of 10 for stability. 

I rate MariaDB eight out of 10 for scalability. It's relatively good. 

We do not have paid support because we use the open-source version. If we have questions, we can look for answers online. MariaDB has an active user community.

I rate MariaDB seven out of 10 for ease of setup. Deployment is easy. We deploy it on-prem and on AWS. I am on a team of seven people, but one person is sufficient to set it up in two hours.

We use the community version of MariaDB. We don't have an enterprise license. 

I rate MariaDB eight out of 10. I recommend MariaDB depending on the use case. 

I would like to see a better user interface which would make the tool less complex.

I have been using the tool for three years. 

The product is stable. 

We have used MongoDB and MySQL before. 

The solution was easy to setup. 

We use the solution's free version. 

I am satisfied with the overall product. I would rate the product an eight out of ten. The product has good documentation and you can find many examples online. 

MariaDB is mainly used for current applications where there are connectors already in place with CROs that create everything in the architecture.

The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the power it provides. It is a powerful solution.

MariaDB could improve by adding support for non-relational structures and new data types.

I have been using MariaDB for approximately two years.

The way we configure MariaDB, it's very scalable and there is no performance issue.

We have approximately 10,000 end-users using this solution.

I have not used the technical support from MariaDB.

I have previously used MySQL. I switched from MySQL to MariaDB because there are more updates with MariaDB

The initial setup of MariaDB was simple. It took a few hours. We started with one server and then we did monitoring of the platform to see if the performance was adequate or not. If it was a bit underperforming, we would add resources, such as CPU and memory. If it was a larger gap, we would add a new server to the cluster.

We have approximately 10 people in the DevOps team that look after the solution.

MariaDB is a free-to-use solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate MariaDB an eight out of ten.

We develop financial software such as credit management solutions for banks, financial institutions, and telcos, basically anyone who deals with credit. We are users of this product and resell to our customers. I'm the operations manager. 

The solution is valuable because it has PL/SQL compatibility. Our base was previously on Oracle and we wanted to change our solution to a DBS which meant finding something compatible with that language. It's really a great language, especially as it's one that you can get for free. If we build our technical knowledge, then we won't need third-party support which is a strong plus.

The PL/SQL performance is slow. If you have big batch jobs running in the middle of the night for a bank doing its end-of-day audits, then MariaDB will take three times longer than using Oracle. The product lacks sufficient detail in its reports. MariaDB has many extra features that would help to optimize the DB in the enterprise version and it would be helpful if it were possible to add some of those features in the open source version. 

I've been using this solution for two years. 

The solution is very stable in the right perameters. If I have a customer looking for something that's not batch job heavy, then we use MariaDB. If I have a core system that's going to take a ton of records and go through all these in the batch jobs at night, then we default to Oracle, because it's faster. We've proposed it to enterprise clients and we've proven to them that it's stable enough.

It's probably one of the most used RDBMS's for scalability. We haven't really tested it on millions and millions of customers but there's no problem with scalability. 

We use the community for support. If we were to purchase support, the cost would be around 5k per year. It's a big difference. We usually just use the after-market support and haven't required any direct support from the company. We've been able to handle it internally. 

When I compare MariaDB to Oracle, an industry leader, the big difference we found is performance in the PL/SQL mode. With Oracle, regular queries get executed at the same level with no issues. For ease of use and the setup, they're pretty similar. We also looked at IBM DB2 but there were compatibility issues and it was significantly slower. 

The initial setup is really easy for our team. It's a quick download and configuration. We have set parameters.

We use the open source edition which doesn't require licensing. We don't offer the enterprise edition, because if we're taking the customer off Oracle, for the additional benefits, we have to optimize the cost. If we have a customer with budget constraints, it's saving hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes millions, if we use MariaDB instead of Oracle.

I rate this solution nine out of 10. 

I installed the solution here in the company when they required MySQL. I tried MariaDB instead, and it works fine due to the fact that MariaDB is an exact clone of some parts of MySQL. It also has a database for a help desk solution, called a GPLI.

It's open source. It's freeware. It's very similar to MySQL. MySQL is a very good database management system, a relational database management system. However, the problem, or the potential problem with MySQL, is that it is under Oracle's umbrella, and I want to be prepared in case it's being commercialized and closed.

MariaDB was created by the same creator of MySQL. However, before he sold it to, at that time, Sun Microsystems, it was later acquired by Oracle. It's the same creators. It's the same programmer. That's what I like.

It's a one-time installation and configuration, and then I almost forgot about it. What I like is that it's very easy to configure, and just from time to time, you can make your backups, and that's it.

I don’t have any particular issue with the solution. It works well for my purposes.

I’m not sure if it can scale, so I’m not sure how it would fare for significant companies. I know that MariaDB has a cluster solution that I don't need at the moment. Probably, it would be a good idea to have a way just to confirm that the cluster is available for when I require scaling.

We’ve been using the solution for one year.

It’s quite stable. I haven’t had issues with bugs or glitches. It doesn’t crash or freeze. It’s reliable. It’s very similar to MySQL.

I’m not sure if it is scalable. Scalability doesn’t affect me as I am only using one application. I don’t require any scaling capabilities.

Indirectly through the help desk solution, the whole company has about 60 plus users on this product.

It's open source and freeware. The support that I receive is in the forums and the blocks in the internal information. You can’t call or email someone at MariaDB.

We also use SQL Server Express, MySQL Fork, and SQLite.

The setup is simple. It’s as easy as setting up MySQL.

This product is open-source and free to use.

I am just a customer and an end-user.

I'm not sure right now which version we are on.

Whether or not this is a good solution for a user depends on usage. You need to be sure that this is the solution for you. I'm not going to scale up, which is why it's my current solution. If I had to scale, I’m unsure if this would fit.

I’d rate the solution nine out of ten.

We are using the MariaDB and we are using it to record the database for our EERP system.

MariaDB is valuable if the data growth is a little bit slow. That's why we use MariaDB. Otherwise, we go with other regular databases.

The initial setup is simple. 

The product has been stable and reliable. 

There's an enterprise version. However, right now, we are using free versions. Our chunks of data are a low amount of data. We'd like it to be able to handle more or to have something between free and enterprise that can handle more.

The maintenance and performance could be a bit better.

There is no available pivot table. There is no facility available in MariaDB.

The failed login attempt feature is not available.

I've been using the solution for one year. 

It's stable. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. Right now, for example, version 10.4 is very stable.

This is scalable while you are using the Galera cluster and we can easily implement this.

I haven't really dealt with technical support. 

I had just one question about a failed attempt at login. One time I hit the database diagnosis. When I was trying to connect the database multiple times and got failed attempts. That's the only time I reached out.

The solution is pretty easy. It is easier compared to the Oracle database.

While there is an enterprise version, we are using the free version of the solution. 

I'm an integrator, not an end-user.

We're using the latest version - possibly 10.10 or 10.4.

I'd advise users to opt for the enterprise version which offers a bit more. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.