MariaDB Platform vs. Oracle Database

MariaDB Platform

76 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Database

1,185 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
Oracle Database	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.	$0.05 per hour

Pricing

MariaDB Platform

Oracle Database

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Oracle Base Database Service - Standard: $0.0538
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise: $0.1075
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance: $0.2218
per hour
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Pricing Offerings
MariaDB Platform	Oracle Database
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	MariaDB Platform	Oracle Database
Considered Both Products	MariaDB 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? 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 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? 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?	Oracle Verified User Chose Oracle Database 1. The commercial application required an Oracle database running at the back end 2. Existing Oracle expertise makes it easy to manage an Oracle database 3. Confidence in Oracle databases: No need to worry about performance, scalability. Incentivized Helpful? Allison Mills Traffic Manager in Customer Service at Rescom Ventures Limited (Real Estate, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle Database With Oracle Database 12c, one is assured of high availability and high speeds on concurrent access from different users. The security is also very high with constant updates and peer to peer communities that help users with problems faced by other users which they may be facing … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Scott Oracle Database Administrator in Information Technology at Bodybuilding.com (Retail, 201-500 employees) Chose Oracle Database We're still in evaluation but based on cost and affordability vs. performance for our specific needs (running a $500M retail e-commerce shop) Oracle 12c loses. Licensing and support of Enterprise Edition would equate to a significant percentage of our annual revenue and we … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	MariaDB Platform	Oracle Database
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (30 ratings)	9.0 (178 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (4 ratings)	7.4 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (16 ratings)	7.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (3 ratings)