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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/mariadb-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/mariadb-profile/alternatives/) # MariaDB User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 72 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 50 reviews (69%) - 4 stars: 22 reviews (31%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The setup and deployment are extremely easy and streamlines with a very intuitive phpmyadmin web interface. Before it was integrated with MySQL. After Oracle corporation changed the MySQL open-source license, MariaDb is now a great alternative that would really exceed the expectations in terms of developing and testing RDBMS concepts and models. - It has the main features in the MySQL database, it is actually incepted by the MySQL developers with very similar functionality, performance, and client management. - What I appreciate the most about MariaDB is the interoperability it provides with the different DB administration tools, the compatibility, simplicity and robustness when handling large transactions places confidence in the product. ### Most mentioned cons - MariaDB is not good for beginners as the documentation for it is quite heavy to understand for beginners. - Cluster creation is not simple to manage and some lack of interoperability with MySQL - When performing dumps and/or migrations, it is usually a little problematic. ## MariaDB customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 72 (page 1). ### DB That makes difficult things easy. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Armando I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered With MariaDB I was able to get transactions above 52,000/sec between selects and filters. Real-time statistics with 3rd party tools allow you to see the correct operation. My implementations are at medium scales. They worked very well without much parameterization and tuning. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I appreciate the most about MariaDB is the interoperability it provides with the different DB administration tools, the compatibility, simplicity and robustness when handling large transactions places confidence in the product. I have been using it for 7 years with File Repositories DB. #### Cons When performing dumps and/or migrations, it is usually a little problematic. It is necessary to use the correct parameters to obtain a comprehensive and secure backup for new installations. Experience in this context is required. --- ### Review of mariadb by a developer from Peru - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jhonatan C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As a Peruvian developer I have used this database manager a lot, not only in software but also in virtual stores, storage of large amounts of information and I have never had problems with this manager #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like the functionalities that it has similar to its predecessor, but it is easier to use for new programmers. the great compatibility with mysql is reassuring because you don't need a lot of translator or start from scratch with the database #### Cons The only disadvantage that could arise would be in some case of incompatibility, but since they are very similar services we should not find any such case. --- ### Great product, but MySQL is still the standard - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Justin S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. MariaDB is easy to set up and use, but I worry that its community support isn't where it needs to be in order to be a top contender against MySQL. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros MariaDB has picked up the community-oriented development mindset where MySQL left off since being acquired by Oracle. I've had virtually no problems with stability, and MariaDB seems to be actively developed. #### Cons Unfortunately, the majority of the community still seems to use MySQL, and that will become a problem as MySQL and MariaDB continue to diverge. How many developers will want to support both platforms? It's difficult to say. #### Reasons for switching to MariaDB Oracle tends to ruin everything it touches, and we didn't want to risk being caught using one of its products if a drop-in replacement was available. --- ### A great RDBMS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I am happy to use MariaDB as an RDBMS. It fulfills all of my requirements to develop a complete Web Application.Using MariaDB we can create dynamic web applications very easily and quickly as it supports standard SQL language. So no need to learn anything new to work with this. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I mostly like pulling and storing data using standard SQL queries. We can define reference as foreign keys which keep the integrity of data.Also, auto-increment key generation is very helpful. Datetime and timestamp data types are very helpful to sort the records.The limit keyword is also there to pull the data in a pagination manner.Integration of MariaDB is very simple. I have used MariaDB with Java frameworks like Spring, Dropwizard, and Struts 2 and didn't face a single issue regarding its connectivity. #### Cons The only thing is when a table grows much then pulling data using a SELECT query becomes slow than expected. --- ### Review for MariaDB - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I always use MariaDB for mine as well as mine client's project. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is very much faster than MySQL, It can aslo be used to build web application for the clients. It has alot of features amazing functionalities and table and table management. Its 100% compatible and much important it is easy to use. #### Cons The price is bit expensive but free version also alot of work can be done. #### Reasons for choosing MariaDB Its fast and time consuming --- ### Great experience a fast database and without many novelties - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aníbal M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Currently I am carrying out a project independently for one of my clients and we have chosen MariaDB as a database, which gives me the advantage of being able to offer a simple and stable service without recharging the price of the licenses, although the time in what I have tried is little. I hope that this software is maintained over time and continues to grow. With MariaDB I have grown personally and professionally #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros MariaDB is something new in the market and at the beginning I was not sure about making the migration, but it has been very easy to use and has shown a lot of stability and speed, I really like it to be OpenSource with the software under the GPL license. This reduces many costs which gives a point in favor when choosing it, I like that it has a large community where there are always people willing to help in any problem, its configuration in the servers is quite simple and with very few resources can have the service operational, I like that the hosting providers have added it at no additional cost, which makes me consider it a lot when I'm going to implement a content manager or an electronic commerce system. New tables are an advantage in INFORMATION_SCHEMA #### Cons Although the community has tried to guarantee 100% compatibility with MySQL the reality is that it is not quite true when migrating to MariaDB it is necessary to change some data types that are not available. I did not like that it is necessary to uninstall MySQL on my development servers in order to install MariaDB. This software is fine for small and medium projects but it is limited when you need a robust database and with many long and frequent queries so for large projects it is not a good option. --- ### Better than MySQL - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Héctor A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Is a complete, with a great community database with a feature set that grows version after version easy to work with most programming languages and truly open source. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is based on MySQL, and has great compatibility with tools based on it, it is OpenSource like MySQL, but the difference is that MariaDB is governed by the [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] of MySQL and not Oracle, Oracle is a Closed Source Database company, If someday they decide to remove the plug on MySQL or making it weaker to sell their products there would be no option to MySQL users, but MariaDB exists now. #### Cons It's missing some statistic tools that PostGreSQL already comes with, they can be added but it might be kind of cumbersome, Tools are not as polished as MySQL Workbench, DBeaver is the best one that I tried but have some issues from time to time. --- ### Best opensource RDBMS solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Giuseppe N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros For years now, many hosts have offered MariaDB as RDBMS. DB management and performance are excellent, 90% of the work is done by the correct design of the data structure. #### Cons No problem or defect regarding the use I make of it. --- ### Best optimized database WordPress - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anton T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Database optimization, data replication, data management #### Cons Instalation is very hard, especially for beginner --- ### The improved fork of an excellent solution, integrate with a lot of software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros As a fork of another solution you have all the advantages of the old solution but with more actualizations and an improved experience. Easy to connect with a wide variety of DB clients and integrates with a large amount of software- Widely recommended as there are a lot of documentation on the web. --- ### MariaDB: An open-source alternative to MySQL - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Maha S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The most appealing feature of MariaDB is its open-source license that allows us to use it freely in academia to teach relational database management courses. The setup and deployment are extremely easy and streamlines with a very intuitive phpmyadmin web interface. Before it was integrated with MySQL. After Oracle corporation changed the MySQL open-source license, MariaDb is now a great alternative that would really exceed the expectations in terms of developing and testing RDBMS concepts and models. #### Cons The performance lags in many cases especially when deploying on Cloud IaaS platforms. Though theses instances are not arising frequently but we believe that MariaDb can go a long way towards improving and becoming a fierce competitor to the big names in the RDBMs arena today. #### Reasons for switching to MariaDB MariaDb is open-source --- ### My second best RDBMS software and best opensource software. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Debjit B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I love the idea of open-source so as opensource this is my best DB software. I love the idea of it and similarity with mysql as it is a fork of it. If you already used any SQL software/server before then you can find this pice of software your next best thing. This fast and light feature of it is the dealbreaker. VPS with 512MB ram can run mariaDB with 1000's of users which I cant think with Mysql or any other software. Love to see this awesome pice of software success. For support you always have it sorted by someone before and you just need to search. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This is an opensource solutions which is a fork of MySql. I love how light it is compared to other softwares. It is reliable, light, much faster alternative. If you know mySQL then it is just the free version of it. #### Cons I ran into some configuration problem when trying to configure it on my VPS server. It doesn't have lots of tutorials like other, but you can always find a way around of it. You cannot get personalize support for this software like others, because it is a comunity based DB software. Less update and bug fixing sometime make word really hard. --- ### MariaDB pour vos bases de données - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Zie C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered MariaDB est un gestionnaire SGBD, très simple d'utilisation, avec une interface institutif #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros J'utilise MariaDB dans des projets d'applications web et mobile, en tant que gestionnaire de bases de données #### Cons MariaDB est limité en terme de capacité de stockage de données, donc pas adapté à des projets de grandes capacités --- ### Very good database engine, so far a drop in replacement for other engine - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Miguel Alejandro A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This is a very simple to use database engine, and the default engine for many Linux distros. It's a fork of Mysql and so far it's fully compatible, the changes at this point are in the back end, it uses different engines, which gives more options for different types of loads. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Is a medium to lightweight database engine, in resource consumption, fast as long as you set it up correctly. Database backups are simple, but no easy to automate. Uses a very standard SQL language. It's very easy to find libraries for this database in any operative system. #### Cons It does not include a default manager It's all console by default --- ### Open source - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros A fork from mysql, much more updated and well maintained, doesn't require a lot of learning very simple and reliable! #### Cons I hate the option to log in without password after installing new mariadb server, I wish I could set a password before installing, but it doesn't prevent from doing it after the installation it's just extra steps... --- ### Good - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Alexandre B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. MariaDB it's one option available to store data in tables for applications. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MariaDB it's a great database that provides a very good way to storage data and it's compatible with multiple operating systems. #### Cons Some useful SQL functions it's not available in this database, but it's still a very good way to storage data. --- ### Very good - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good to use MariaDB, very easy to configure and with a lot of documentation generated by the user community of the tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros An option to the MySQL database, as it is more updated than the free version of MySQL, and its license and its compatibility with Linux allows a low cost in production environment. #### Cons Because it is a good open source option, this means support is through the community, and the vendor is not responsible for data loss. --- ### nice mysql alternative - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MariaDB has better performance, more open development, compatibility with MySQL, supports additional storage engines, and has quicker security releases. #### Cons Might become incompatible in the future. I haven't run into any incompatibilities in my own deployment, but it's worth noting that MariaDB and MySQL have begun to diverge --- ### A very good MySQL relational DB - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Symeon L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use if you have enough knowledge with the SQL queries. Its open source so it has great support #### Cons It has a very high cost on horizontal scale. --- ### Easy integration , Easy Start! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is easy to work with database also the best for using to someone who is very familiar to using databases. This serves as a perfect database for industry usage also which makes its use easy for professionals. #### Cons MariaDB is not good for beginners as the documentation for it is quite heavy to understand for beginners. --- ### MariaDB review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mateusz J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MariaDB is a fast and reliable platform. Easy to switch from MySQL. #### Cons It supports only JSON data types. Support system is expensive. --- ### overall review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: jody s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Three months ago I used this database to create a sales application for a company in the city where I live #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros what I like about this software is it's safer and colorful in my opinion #### Cons I really like the software because it is open source --- ### Fast and reliable db - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Light, easy to use with standard SQL language. #### Cons It would be great to have a manager instead of a console by default. --- ### Fast database - good features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Free and fast Database that can handle data well. #### Cons Limitations with MySQL and struggles with large amounts of data. --- ### Excelente opción para Crear tus Páginas Web en WordPress - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ederson V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Utilizo esta Base de Datos para Instalar algunos proyectos web, es decir, cuando Instalo WordPress mi panel de control que utilizo me da la facilidad de Instalar MySQL o MariaDB, en las ocasiones que he instalado MariaDB nunca he tenido problemas con esta Base de Datos, por lo que la recomiendo. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Nunca he tenido problemas con esta base de datos, la he instalado en varios diseños de páginas web que he realizado en WordPress y nunca he tenido problemas. #### Cons En algunas ocasiones cuando la Base de Datos crece mucho, observo que consume muchos recursos de mi servidor. #### Reasons for choosing MariaDB Los utilizo los dos, no tengo uno preferido. #### Reasons for switching to MariaDB En realidad utilizo los dos productos, no tengo ningún parámetro para elegir uno u otro. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/mariadb-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- MariaDB Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice