Built for Speed, Engineered for Stability
Your Foundation for Mission-Critical Data
When performance and reliability are nonnegotiable, MariaDB Server stands as a robust and dependable choice. Originally started as a fork of MySQL, MariaDB Server remains truly open source, with an active developer community, while building upon a strong, established foundation to incorporate significant performance and reliability enhancements.
We focus on delivering a database engine that excels in demanding environments, offering consistent performance and unwavering stability for your mission-critical applications. MariaDB has led innovation as an open source relational database (RDBMS) through Oracle compatibility, native vector embedded search, multimodal workloads, advanced temporal features and more.
Data Integrity for Enterprise-Grade Reliability
For mission-critical applications demanding enterprise-grade reliability, MariaDB provides full ACID transaction support, ensuring robust data reliability and integrity.
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Enhance Performance for Mission-Critical Applications
Reduce performance bottlenecks during high-traffic environments, improve resource management and transaction handling with MariaDB’s use of threads together with a thread pool that takes full advantage of your hardware. MariaDB’s new cost optimizer also improves query performance for advanced queries.
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Multimodal Solution for Hybrid Workflows
MariaDB Server supports multiple workloads, such as transactional, analytical, structured, semi-structured (through advanced JSON features) and AI (vector), that allows you to enjoy greater schema flexibility and faster development.
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Vector Embedded Search for AI Workloads
MariaDB’s native vector embedded search allows you to implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to build AI applications without the complexity of integrating multiple databases. Based on performance benchmarks, MariaDB has the fastest vector implementation for any open source database.
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Oracle Database Compatibility
Migrate from Oracle with ease using MariaDB’s Oracle Mode, leveraging PL/SQL support and a robust compatibility layer for Oracle-like functionality.
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Seamless MySQL Replacement
MariaDB Server maintains compatibility with MySQL while delivering advanced innovation that surpasses MySQL’s capabilities. MariaDB Server offers a seamless migration that leverages your existing MySQL applications, connectors and tools.
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Open Source Commitment
MariaDB’s dedication to open source fosters a vibrant developer community, resulting in over a billion downloads and accelerating innovation and feature testing. We work hand-in-hand with the MariaDB Foundation, which focuses on engaging with the community and managing community contributions.
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Long-Term Stability
MariaDB Enterprise Server ensures long-term stability and reduces upgrade burdens through its extended maintenance lifecycle and backported features, promoting sustainability and minimizing technical debt. MariaDB is also committed to long-term maintenance (LTS) for the Community Server on a standardized release schedule.
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