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title: "MariaDB Enterprise Server"
publish_date: 2025-01-16
updated_date: 2025-10-22
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# MariaDB Enterprise Server

## Ultimate Peace of Mind

MariaDB Enterprise Server is a hardened, production-grade database that delivers enhanced reliability and stability. Ensure predictable operations and minimize risk with our commitment to up to 8 years of long-term support. Deployment flexibility is offered across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. MariaDB Cloud provides a fully managed database-as-a-service option. With its purpose-built storage engine architecture, MariaDB Enterprise Server supports diverse workloads, including transactional processing, analytical queries and mixed workloads, accommodating relational, JSON and vector data models.

  
  
## Enterprise Features

### Enterprise Audit

Guarantee compliance through comprehensive audit logging with JSON documents stored in system tables, capturing detailed connection metadata, query execution details and user activity.

### Enterprise Backup

Ensure high availability and minimize application downtime with non-blocking physical backups. Supports online backup operations, allowing concurrent read and write transactions, as well as DDL changes during the backup process.

### Enterprise Cluster

Enterprise Cluster powers synchronous multi-master replication, providing high availability and fault tolerance. Cluster provides encrypted transaction buffers for secure data replication, and preconfigured settings tuned for production environments.

### Enterprise Federation

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

### Hashicorp Vault

MariaDB Server integrates with HashiCorp Enterprise for external key management, separating encryption keys from the database instance. Namespace support enables an organization to implement secure multi-tenancy and provides enhanced security by centralizing key lifecycle management, facilitating key rotation, access control and audit trails.

## Capabilities

### Data integrity and consistency

A robust transaction management system guarantees ACID properties, ensuring that data remains consistent and reliable even in the event of concurrent transactions or system failures.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/resources/blog/acid-compliance-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-care/)  
  
### Scalability

Designed to efficiently utilize available hardware resources, allowing you to scale up by adding more CPU, memory or storage to a single server, enabling you to handle increasing data volumes and user traffic without requiring significant architectural changes.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/database-topics/scalability/)  
  
### Disaster recovery

Recover from accidental/malicious data loss with MariaDB Flashback and be prepared for outages with non-blocking backups (full and incremental) and point-in-time recovery.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/database-topics/disaster-recovery/)  
  
### Hybrid data workflow

Advanced JSON support allows developers to work with unstructured and relational data within a single database, streamlining development and enhancing application flexibility.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/database-topics/semi-structured-data/)  
  
### Native embedded vector search

With MariaDB’s native vector embedded search, implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to build AI applications that deliver accurate and contextually rich results, eliminating the complexity of integrating multiple databases.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/database-topics/vector-embedded-search/)  
  
### Enhanced Analytics

Use the included ColumnStore for basic analytical needs or upgrade to MariaDB Exa for high-performance analytics.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/database-topics/analytics/)  
  
### Nonblocking DDLs

By minimizing blocking, DDL operations can be executed with less impact on application availability, leading to reduced or even near-zero downtime for schema changes.

### XA Support

Uses a two-phase commit protocol to ensure that a transaction is either fully completed across all resources or completely rolled back, maintaining data integrity.

### SSL/TLS Support

Enabled by default, encrypts the data transmission between a client and server, providing enhanced data security.

### Cluster Performance Schema Tables

New information schema tables are available for monitoring the state of a clustered environment.

### Oracle Database compatibility

Simplify migrations from Oracle Database with an Oracle compatibility layer and PL/SQL compatible features.

[Learn More](https://staging-mdb.com/resources/blog/combining-the-power-of-sql-and-procedural-statements-with-mariadbs-oracle-compatibility-mode/)  
  
### MySQL Database Compatibility

Support for MySQL’s default authentication, which is essential for migrating many applications.

## Get Started

  
  
[Download Enterprise Server](https://staging-mdb.com/downloads/enterprise/)  
  
[Contact Us](https://staging-mdb.com/contact/)