MariaDB Platform

MariaDB Platform

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MariaDB Platform	Score9.9 out of 10	N/A	MariaDB is an open-source relational database made by the original developers of MySQL, supported by the MariaDB Foundation and a community of developers. The community states recent additional capabilities as including clustering with Galera Cluster 4, compatibility with Oracle Database, and Temporal Data Tables, allowing one to query the data as it stood at any point in the past.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	MariaDB Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB is perhaps the best open source database server available, combining a wide range of supported platforms, MySQL compatibility, a low footprint, and reasonably high performance. If you have cost constraints, or limited server resources, I recommend MariaDB, particularly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MS SQL Server is like a BlackBox in many cases. Honestly we did not need advanced functionality that SQL server offers, just a plain DBMS. MariaDB is easier to manage, cross operating system, "lighter" with better performances than SQL server. We went with MariaDB Platform even … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform It did not always compete against these technologies. Most of the time, it was complementing these databases for certain use cases to help provide a much more complete database. This makes more users want to use it to explore new solutions that help users. This is our target … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform I've only used MariaDB Platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB gives a low-cost option for DB engines like Oracle with plenty of features and flexibility while having better ease of use than PostgreSQL. Incentivized Helpful? Ravi Narine Director IT in Information Technology at CarData Consultants (Automotive, 11-50 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform RavenDB for BigData is much better. Performs better with large volumes Incentivized Helpful? Alex Anwar Aerospace IT Specialist in Corporate at CommunicAVIA Pte Ltd (Airlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We tried Percona also, but we sometimes having trouble with it and on some cases it having lesser performance than MariaDB. MySQL is the the facto standard, we use this only in scenario that it cannot be replaced by MariaDB. MSSQL is used only if the client ask for Windows … Incentivized Helpful? José Javier Dominguez Reina Técnico in Information Technology at Sadesi (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We have tested other relational database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform We were already wanting to migrate away from Cassandra for reasons of stability, cost (more servers were needed), and our data storage model. We evaluated PostgreSQL but passed on it due to being more familiar with MariaDB. Also we needed something that could do multi-region … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB is very similar to MySQL, but MariaDB has more alternative database engines and ideas for the future where MySQL is offers the stable and more mature version (if not stale). Incentivized Helpful? Greg Yantz Database Administrator in Information Technology at FNI (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform (With and without RAC) My company migrated from Oracle to MariaDB. While MariaDB has some limitations (if you are used to Oracle) it has been much easier and cheaper (in several ways) to operate and has more than met my company's needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB is the clear winner compared to any other database I've used. Reliable, scale-able, affordable--you name the consideration and MariaDB is the winner. Incentivized Helpful? Jedrzej Marciniak CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Kamikaze (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform It's easy to use and fits the best in our business offering. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB is much easier to set up and maintain compared to PostgreSQL makes it much faster to launch our application and relatively easier to upgrade its version so we can make sure the installed version is up to date with the latest patch, which is especially important if we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MySQL is still a great solution, but MariaDB offers a more extensive set of free features than are available for MySQL. We also feel more confident that MariaDB will remain free to use over time. End users haven't noticed much of a difference, but from a development cost … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB stacks up the the competition just fine. Due to is ture open source nature we do not have to worry about licencing and spending money on nothing. Moreover, MariaDB does everything that we need to get done. We can run data that is a million rows or many smaller projects … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB provided the best fit for our business in upgrading legacy systems which were originally designed to use MySQL as a backend. By using MariaDB, no changes to the overall systems needed to be altered, reducing the time needed to upgrade everything. Other solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Mahoney Member of Technical Staff at Global Eagle Entertainment (formerly Row 44, Inc.) (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We had previously used MySQL, but our database has grown very large. MariaDB offers faster queries. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform Thanks to MySQL compatibility, everything you've learned while using it can be utilized when using MariaDB. Therefore it's a better choice than MongoDB and MSSQL if you're looking to switch away from MySQL. MariaDB is also a very mature and stable product, unlike MongoDB that … Incentivized Helpful? Anson Abraham Data Lord in Engineering at Envisagenics, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB is cheaper than Oracle Database and MSSQL server. MySQL owned by Oracle. So MariaDB has too many forks, but enough people in the community. PostgreSQL has a larger community and better administration. However, it s not like MariaDB w/ Galera. MariaDB is not good for … Incentivized Helpful? Stênio Pereira Filho Senior System Analyst in Information Technology at Universidade de São Paulo (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We know others DB alternatives like MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer, PostgreSQL. We selected MariaDB because it offer advanced features like active-active cluster, with no costs and easy to learn. With MariaDB was easy to migrate ours applications that use MySQL, with no … Incentivized Helpful? Casey Smith Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Homes & Land (Publishing, 51-200 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We selected MariaDB over MySQL because of their true open source model and performance optimizations. It was also helpful that it is a drop-in replacement for MySQL so there was no need to update our various software drivers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MariaDB Platform MariaDB costs much less than SQL Server to acquire and maintain. In comparison to Cassandra, it gives us operational use and helps in Agile development. Incentivized Helpful?
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	MariaDB Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (30 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)