MariaDB Platform vs. MySQL

MariaDB Platform

76 Reviews and Ratings

MySQL

971 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
MySQL	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	MySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.	N/A

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	MariaDB Platform	MySQL
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? 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 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? 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? 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? 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? Rytis Slatkevičius Owner in Engineering at IĮ "Technologica Ecliptica" (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform We migrated away from MySQL because of stability issues; when choosing a new database system we considered FirebirdSQL (having some experience from other projects) and did not use it because of stability and lack of standard SQL features in its query language; and Amazon's … 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? 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? 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? Andy G Teasdale Analyst - Asset Managment in Information Technology at MoneySuperMarket.com (Utilities, 201-500 employees) Chose MariaDB Platform Strong performance, handeling data with speed and accuracy. Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at Mutual Ser EPS (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose MySQL When using MySQL I get Oracle support. MariaDB is not a bad alternative, but it doesn't have the same level of support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL After Oracle bought MySQL, I have pivoted some projects to use MariaDB instead, which is a fork of MySQL and maintained by the community and original developers of MySQL. This is free under the GNU GPL, and is not impacted by decisions Oracle makes for MySQL. RDS has the … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager in Information Technology at Coopers Digital Production (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose MySQL I'm not that expert on MariaDB, but as far as I know, it has great support from tools and frameworks, but it's not that usual to find hosting with it installed rather than MySQL. Since MariaDB is a 'fork' from MySQL (since it was bought by Oracle), the transition from MySQL is … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Alberto Pedron Espinett Especialista de Desarrollo in Information Technology at ARCA International Group (Banking, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL The three are relational databases or managers for relational database (except for MariaDB whose approach is based on NoSQL models) with the ability to store large databases and respond to demanding business circumstances, however MySQL compared to Microsoft SQL Server … Incentivized Helpful? Benard Mutua Operations manager in Engineering at Rescom Ventures Limited (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose MySQL Although big players in the market such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora jumped ship to use MariaDB, we found it more viable to use MySQL as a company. This was because MySQL was open source and offered a lot more functionality than other same priced software that were … Incentivized Helpful? Manidipa Kundu Data Analyst in Quality Assurance at Gfactors (Information Services, 11-50 employees) Chose MySQL Each of the products has its own merits and demerits. however since MySQL is a very good documentation and global community its easy to learn and apply in different stages for analytics work. compare to other data bases its simple for setup and work on it. MySQL is cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL It is one of the tools that we had stopped using some time ago and in the last year we amplified its use thanks to its benefits and new functionalities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL Of course compare to no SQL databases it's slower but there is a completely different use case for them... In my opinion it is better than PostgreSQL, it's easier to configure and has the same performance, or approximately the same. Of course Oracle Database is a way bigger … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose MySQL A bit on the more complex side, but definitely one of the more popular solutions between our customers. As a stable alternative to the sometimes really pricy Oracle DB, it performed well for most of our not-database-heavy projects. It was a bit slower than no-SQL solutions on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MySQL We had been using indexes on our MySQL databases for a while now but never before properly learned about them. Generally I put an index on any fields that I will be searching or selecting using a WHERE clause but sometimes it doesn't seem so black and white. Incentivized Helpful? benjamin nzoka Tech writer in Information Technology at NLS BANKING SOLUTIONS AFRICA (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose MySQL I prefer MySQL because of the simplicity of getting started and the ease of use. It has a very simple to use editor where one is able to input their SQL code and execute it from in application. Incentivized Helpful? Parry Ghuman Software Developer in Research & Development at OATI (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose MySQL MySQL provides a feature to easily move to another technology. As we know, most of the users like to use MySQL in the backend because it reduces the overall business cost. No need to pay additional charges. Regularly updated. Incentivized Helpful? Willian Molinari Tech lead in Information Technology at Locaweb (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose MySQL The main argument of this decision was by popularity. At the time (2010), MySQL was the most popular open source database. Between 2010 and today, we evaluated different databases and PostgreSQL is a great competitor. SQL Server is good for windows applications but it's not … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Weiss Chief Architect in Engineering at Dewpoint (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL I have used more than 10 different SQL databases over the course of my career. Of those, the three I find myself using over and over include MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server. I have actually replaced smaller deployments of Oracle and SQL Server with MySQL as a way to reduce … Incentivized Helpful? Franck Leveneur Sr. Mysql DBA in Engineering at ZipRecruiter (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose MySQL Cost: StartUp companies don't have the money to invest large amount of money in pricey databases. By using Mysql, the saving is huge. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Peck Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Esperdyne Technologies (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose MySQL The differences are minor, but worth looking into. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	MariaDB Platform	MySQL
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (30 ratings)	9.3 (135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (4 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)