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title: "Industry"
publish_date: 2022-07-27
updated_date: 2025-07-18
---

# Industry

### Financial Services

Financial services institutions (FSIs) depend on MariaDB to deliver database solutions that support key areas of differentiation such as high-volume transactions, fraud detection, process optimization and customer experience.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/industry/financial-services/)  
  
### Telecommunications

Telecom providers turn to MariaDB to handle the demands of 5G, IoT and edge services. With high-throughput transactions, real-time analytics and carrier-grade resilience, MariaDB helps reduce legacy costs while streamlining operations at scale.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/industry/telecommunications/)  
  
### Public Sector

MariaDB supports public sector needs to build and run mission-critical applications on any platform (cloud, on prem, edge), while maintaining enterprise-grade security, stability and flexibility — all at a fraction of the cost of proprietary databases.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/industry/public-sector/)  
  
### Defense and Intelligence

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), has approved the [Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)](https://staging-mdb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-receives-stig-approval/) for [MariaDB Enterprise Server](https://staging-mdb.com/products/enterprise/). Collect, combine, comprehend and act on all your data with MariaDB transactional and analytical databases on any cloud, anywhere and for any mission.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/industry/defense-and-intelligence/)  
  
### Retail

Retailers use MariaDB to power real-time personalization, manage seasonal traffic, and unify inventory and customer data across channels. MariaDB’s high availability, flexible data models, and native vector search support seamless in-store, mobile, and online experiences.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/industry/retail/)  
  
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