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Kinetica vs MariaDB comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Kinetica
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
34th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MariaDB
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Kinetica is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MariaDB is 6.9%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

SunilAgarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to scale and good record to report capabilities but needs better training
It's not a very popular tool. There are very limited resources available in the market in terms of implementation. They need to offer training plans for graduates so that more resources are available in the market. The support needs to be faster. The solution needs to be lighter. It's a bit too heavy.
KumarManish - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products
We had planned for an RDBMS version and not NoSQL. We use MariaDB Galera Cluster. It's a good product. It is cheap, scalable, performs well, and is efficient. We use GCP’s BigQuery for machine learning. We must follow the best practices of the tool. We missed some best practices like the storage engine and InnoDB. It was very difficult to identify why we were having performance issues. Then, we realized that some of our tables were still on MyISAM, the default storage engine. When we switched it back to the InnoDB, it was very smooth. InnoDB is the recommended one. We must follow the best practices given in the documentation during the initial setup. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution scales easily."
"The initial setup of MariaDB is simple enough."
"The performance is very good."
"A valuable feature is that we can use it for quite a few things, all the things you'd expect from a server—along the lines of Linux's Lightweight Directory."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast."
"The product has good documentation and you can find many examples online."
"The solution's features have effectively met our operational requirements as a standard SQL database."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"The solution is very stable. It was originally built under MySQL. It has a similar level of stability."
 

Cons

"There are very limited resources available in the market in terms of implementation. They need to offer training plans for graduates so that more resources are available in the market."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"The stability could always continue to be improved upon."
"It should work across all fields like SQLite, as it is the basis of any application, even apps for phones and the like."
"The solution is not scalable."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"Data continuity could be improved."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"There is not much support available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The cost is quite good. You can have the open source, free version, which has adequate capacity."
"The tool is open-source."
"It's an open-source solution."
"This is an open-source product, which can be used free of charge."
"The product is not expensive."
"My company uses the free version of the solution."
"MariaDB is open-source and self-hosted."
"There is a monthly subscription to use MariaDB."
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Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

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What do you like most about MariaDB?
The integration with other products is seamless.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MariaDB?
I have found the price of commercial MariaDB to be pretty steep, although not as high as Oracle. Customers often prefer the Community Edition because it's free.
What needs improvement with MariaDB?
The only potential area for improvement could be the pricing model, which might benefit from being more flexible or a bit cheaper.
 

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