The Ultimate MariaDB Cloud Database Service
MariaDB Cloud (formerly SkySQL) is a fully managed database-as-a-service that gives you the choice of two powerful architectures: provisioned for consistent performance, and serverless for on-demand elastic scale. Built on the full power of MariaDB Server, the platform delivers mission-critical resilience, integrated AI and multicloud freedom right out of the box. We handle the underlying operational complexity so you can focus on what matters most: building your next great application.
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Build Smarter, Faster AI Applications
MariaDB Cloud simplifies building AI applications by integrating high-performance vector search and developer tooling directly into the database. This unified approach eliminates the complexity and cost of a fragmented data stack.
Accelerate AI Development
Build and deploy AI-powered features in record time. MariaDB Cloud provides agentic AI, including Developer and DBA Copilot agents, to handle tasks from creating natural language interfaces to optimizing performance. This boosts productivity for your entire technical team and accelerates development cycles.
Manage with Unified Tooling
Streamline your entire database workflow with the MariaDB Cloud MCP Server. This centralized interface lets AI agents manage instances, execute SQL queries and automate key administrative tasks from a single interface.
Simplify Your AI Data Stack
MariaDB Server features native vector search that can outperform competitors like Postgres pgvector. By managing vector embeddings alongside your operational data in a single, native system, you eliminate the cost, complexity and latency of a separate vector database. This approach simplifies development and enhances performance.
Built for Mission-Critical
MariaDB Cloud is designed to ensure uptime and resilience. It combines an advanced, self-healing architecture with intelligent, automated failover – enabling zero-downtime recovery – to protect your database from small-scale failures and large-scale outages.
Automated High Availability
MariaDB Cloud’s active-active high availability is powered by MariaDB MaxScale, our advanced database proxy. MaxScale automatically handles read-write splitting and read scaling across all active nodes, ensuring your application remains performant and resilient.
Self-Healing Architecture
Built on a resilient, cloud-native foundation that constantly monitors its own health, MariaDB Cloud can automatically detect and recover from many types of failures, such as restarting failed processes or re-provisioning unhealthy nodes.
Disaster Recovery
For the ultimate level of protection, MariaDB Cloud offers disaster recovery options across different geographic regions. This allows your service to survive a large-scale event, up to and including the failure of an entire cloud provider region.
Serverless for Variable Workloads
For applications with spiky or unpredictable traffic, MariaDB Cloud offers a serverless model designed for automatic, on-demand scaling. It is the ideal architecture for production workloads like e-commerce and payment processing, as well as for cost-effective development and testing.
Cut Costs for Idle Time
The platform automatically scales compute down to zero during inactive periods. This pay-for-use model means you are only billed for resources when queries are actually running, drastically reducing costs for your variable workloads.
Auto-Scale for Peak Demand
Handle sudden traffic spikes without ever overprovisioning. The architecture instantly provides resources to meet peak demand and releases them just as quickly, ensuring a fast and responsive user experience at all times.
Powered by MariaDB Server
Our serverless option is built on the standard, unmodified MariaDB Server. This means you don’t have to compromise on power, features or reliability to gain the efficiency of serverless. You get the same trusted, production-grade database in a more elastic package.
Engineered for Peak Performance
Great application performance starts with a database that delivers both raw speed and the ability to scale under load. MariaDB Cloud is engineered to provide both, with the high throughput and elastic scalability needed to power demanding services.
Power for Heavy Workloads
MariaDB Cloud is built to deliver the high throughput and low latency required for intensive transactional workloads and real-time analytics, ensuring a consistently fast and responsive experience for your users.
Elastic Scalability
From a single instance to a multi-node distributed cluster, MariaDB Cloud is designed to scale seamlessly with your business. Effortlessly add read replicas or scale up compute to handle growth without needing to re-architect your application.
Real-Time Insights
MariaDB Cloud includes intuitive observability tools – with real-time monitoring, customizable dashboards and intelligent alerts – to help you proactively manage and optimize performance with ease.
Ready to build your next application?
Pricing
You can get started with MariaDB Cloud at no cost. Our Serverless tier is free forever for experimenting and small development projects.
Subscription Tiers
| Foundation | Power | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Features | |||
| Database | MariaDB Community | MariaDB Enterprise | |
| Supported Deployments | Provisioned – Single Node, Replicated Serverless | Provisioned – Single Node, Replicated Serverless |
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| Uptime SLA % of time service is guaranteed to be available | 99.95% for multi-node 99.9% for single node | 99.995% for multi-node 99.9% for single node |
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| Support | Basic Included Standard available | Basic Included Standard, RDBA available |
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| Cloud Resources | |||
| Cloud Availability Cloud deployment options | AWS, GCP, Azure, 40+ regions | AWS, GCP, Azure, 40+ regions | |
| Compute | Up to 16 vCPU, 128GB RAM | Up to 128 vCPU, 1024 GB RAM | |
| Compute Scaling Ability to scale both horizontally and vertically | On-demand | On-demand Autoscaling |
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| Storage | Up to 1000 GB | Up to 9000 GB | |
| Storage Scaling | On-demand | On-demand Autoscaling |
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| Multi-node Configuration Ability to launch and horizontally scale | Up to 1 read replica | Up to 4 read replicas | |
| Redundant MaxScale For improved higher availability | No | Yes | |
| Backup and Recovery Features | |||
| Backup Types Supported backup types | Nightly Self-service | Nightly Self-service |
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| Backup Storage | Managed | Managed External |
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| Recovery | Backup restore | Backup restore Point in time restore |
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| Observability Features | |||
| Metrics and Logs | Cloud Portal | Cloud Portal | |
| Alerts | Preconfigured Custom | Preconfigured Custom |
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| Security | |||
| Portal RBAC | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Encryption In transit and at rest for data and backups | Yes | Yes | |
| Secure Connectivity How clients are able to connect to the database | IP Allowlist | IP Allowlist PrivateLink, Private Service Connect |
Compute
| Name | Cloud | Foundation | Power |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sky-2×4 | AWS | 0.13182 | 0.1648 |
| Sky-2×8 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 0.17024 | 0.2128 |
| Sky-4×16 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 0.34047 | 0.4256 |
| Sky-4×32 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 0.49415 | 0.6177 |
| Sky-8×32 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 0.68095 | 0.8512 |
| Sky-8×64 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 0.98830 | 1.2354 |
| Sky-16×64 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 1.36189 | 1.7024 |
| Sky-16×128 | AWS, GCP, Azure | 1.97660 | 2.4708 |
| Sky-32×128 | AWS, GCP, Azure | – | 3.4047 |
| Sky-32×256 | AWS, GCP, Azure | – | 4.9415 |
| Sky-64×256 | AWS, GCP, Azure | – | 6.8095 |
| Sky-64×512 | AWS, GCP, Azure | – | 9.8830 |
| Sky-96×384 | AWS | – | 10.2143 |
| Sky-96×768 | AWS | – | 14.8245 |
| Sky-128×512 | AWS | – | 13.6190 |
| Sky-128×1024 | AWS | – | 19.7660 |
Storage
| Name | Cloud | Price |
|---|---|---|
| gp3 | AWS | 0.1000 |
| io1 | AWS | 0.1563 |
| SSD | GCP | 0.2000 |
| StandardSSD | Azure | 0.1000 |
| PremiumSSD | Azure | 0.1875 |
Other Charges
- Data Transfer: Data transfer costs are passed through directly from the cloud provider with no additional markup. These costs vary based on usage and are not included in the monthly service estimate.
- Multi-node: Includes a charge for our advanced database proxy, MariaDB MaxScale.
- Stopped Services: Please note, if you stop a service, you will still be charged for its storage. Compute charges will cease until you restart it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about MariaDB Cloud
Serverless is a cloud database model where you get all the power of a database without managing any of the infrastructure. It automatically provides resources on demand, scaling to precisely match your application’s needs.
Key benefits include:
Instant Deployment: Launch a database in seconds.
Effortless Scaling: Automatically scales resources up for peak traffic and back down for quiet periods.
No Idle Costs: When not in use, compute can scale to zero, so you don’t pay for idle time.
Pay-for-Use Billing: Pay only for the resources you consume, which is ideal for variable workloads like dev/test, payment apps and online games.
MariaDB Cloud is primarily designed for online applications and offers two topologies:
Replicated: Useful for mission-critical, production workloads requiring read scaling. Replicated services feature 1 primary and up to 4 replicas and uses MariaDB MaxScale for load balancing and automatic zero-interruption failover.
Single Node: Useful for low-cost development and test transactional workloads. Single Node services cannot be scaled to Replicated topologies.
MariaDB Cloud is a fully managed service, which means we handle the operational burden of maintenance for you. Our team of experts manages all routine software patching, security updates and version upgrades. You can configure your preferred maintenance windows to minimize disruption to your application. This lets your team focus on innovation, not on routine database administration.
MariaDB Cloud is engineered to provide superior performance and dramatically better price-performance than AWS Aurora.
In a recent benchmark comparing MariaDB Cloud with AWS Aurora (running MySQL), MariaDB Cloud consistently came out on top.
The results showed MariaDB Cloud delivers:
3x Higher Throughput: To power more demanding, transaction-heavy applications.
2.5x Lower Latency: For faster query response times and a better end-user experience.
7x Better Price-Performance: Allowing you to achieve significantly more performance for every dollar of your cloud spend.
Read the benchmark: SkySQL vs. AWS Aurora (MySQL): A Price/Performance Comparison