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title: "MariaDB Enterprise Platform Components"
publish_date: 2020-07-16
updated_date: 2025-10-22
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# MariaDB Enterprise Platform Components

## MariaDB Enterprise Server

Built upon MariaDB’s popular open source Community Server, MariaDB Enterprise Server delivers an enhanced, hardened and secured database platform. It provides the enterprise-grade reliability, stability and long-term support you demand, coupled with features designed to maximize operational efficiency for your most critical business applications and large-scale deployments.

### Enhanced

Improvements to auditing, backups, clustering, federation, replication and storage allow database administrators (DBAs) to fully secure databases and avoid downtime.

### Hardened

Proactive testing and comprehensive enterprise documentation enhance the stability and reliability of MariaDB Community Server by integrating solutions and preventative measures for identified issues.

### Secured

The default configuration maximizes security and durability to ensure production deployments are safe, and all non-GA plugins are removed.

### Enterprise Features

### Enterprise Audit

Collect detailed connection information and create granular audit rules and templates using JSON documents stored in system tables.

### Enterprise Backup

Take backups on large databases without blocking writes and interrupting applications, or blocking important schema changes.

### Enterprise Cluster

Deploy secure multi-master clusters with data in-motion and data at-rest encryption and default configurations optimized for production.

### Enterprise Federation

Consolidate data access by using MariaDB Enterprise Server to access tables in other databases using standard ODBC connections.

### HashiCorp Vault

Manage encryption keys outside of the database for maximum security and easier, more sophisticated key management. <a id="maxscale"></a>

## MariaDB MaxScale

MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced database proxy for MariaDB Enterprise Server, providing it with enterprise high availability, scalability, security and integration. It delivers a powerful abstraction layer over your database infrastructure to simplify application development and database administration tasks.

[Download datasheet](https://staging-mdb.com/resources/datasheets/mariadb-maxscale/)

### Scalability

Intelligent query routing and adaptive load balancing simplify application development and improve query performance.

### High availability

Automatic failover with transaction replay ensures applications are not interrupted, or even aware of, an infrastructure failure.

### Integration

Redis can be used to cache query results to improve performance while Kafka can be used to publish data changes to external systems.

### Security

Full end-to-end encryption and dynamic data masking prevent data breaches and protect sensitive personal information.<a id="columnstore"></a>

### Upgrades

Workload capture and replay, and the diff router, enable you to test workloads before upgrading to identify any potential performance or stability impact.

## MariaDB ColumnStore

MariaDB ColumnStore extends MariaDB Enterprise Server with distributed, columnar storage and massively parallel processing (MPP), transforming it into a standalone or distributed data warehouse for interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows without the need to create indexes – and with standard SQL.

#### Columnar

Data is stored in a columnar format for fast analytics and with up to 90% compression, reducing disk I/O and size of data on disk.

#### Distributed

Data can be distributed across multiple database instances and queried in parallel to increase query performance and support massive datasets.

#### Cloud native

Data can be stored on S3-compatible object storage, on premises or in the cloud, to benefit from low-cost, unlimited storage.

### Modern analytics

#### Standard SQL

Analyze billions of rows and hundreds of terabytes of data with standard SQL, including joins with other tables (row or columnar).

#### Kafka and Spark connectors

Use Kafka and Spark connectors to ingest streaming data and publish machine learning results for interactive, ad hoc analysis.

#### Direct data loading

CLI import tools as well as C, Java and Python connectors bypass the SQL layer to load data directly to storage from anywhere.

## MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator<a id="operator"></a>

MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator is a powerful solution designed to provision and operate MariaDB Enterprise Platform, including MariaDB Enterprise Server, MaxScale and Enterprise Cluster, seamlessly within Kubernetes environments. Certified by Red Hat, it offers a standardized, efficient and secure way to manage the entire lifecycle of your enterprise database fleet across any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

[Download datasheet](https://staging-mdb.com/resources/datasheets/mariadb-enterprise-kubernetes-operator/)

### Kubernetes Deployment

Deploy complex, production-ready MariaDB topologies like MariaDB Enterprise Cluster and MaxScale using simple declarative files.

### Automated security

Streamline adherence to strict regulations with intelligent automation of security configurations, including customizable TLS certificates and key management, reducing manual overhead and potential errors.

### Scalable and highly available

Automate scaling to ensure continuous application availability with built-in high availability configurations for your MariaDB Enterprise Platform deployments.

### Hybrid cloud management

Achieve operational consistency and avoid vendor lock-in by managing your MariaDB Enterprise databases uniformly across public clouds, private clouds and on-premises environments.

### Red Hat OpenShift certified

Gain peace of mind with a solution certified by Red Hat, guaranteeing compatibility, security best practices and enterprise-grade support for your mission-critical deployments.

### Lifecycle automation

Automate the entire lifecycle of your MariaDB Enterprise databases, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, backups and recovery, so your team can focus on innovation.

## Get Started

  
  
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