MariaDB Reviews

We're primarily using the solution for a data warehouse. It's just used to collect all this information from several databases, such as SQL Server, MySQL Server, DB2 Mainframe, and ZOS. We are collecting data from Excel spreadsheets. We're scanning and putting data right into MariaDB.

The best way to simplify our data governance process.

We like the easy way that we can collect data from other databases. 

The performance and the security that we got on it are great.

The way that they distribute the database is excellent.

It is a product that is very easy to use.

It's helped us a lot in our data governance procedure.

Technical support is great.

We'd like more data intelligence. We are working with a client who needs a lot of information about Oracle groups that come in the country, on the passenger name records, and so on. We need more intelligence around that in order to work better.

I've been using the solution for six months.

We didn't have any bugs yet. The solution is stable and reliable. We haven't had any issues yet.

We're still testing the solution with 30 people. Once we go into production, we'll train the whole company. therefore, we do plan to increase usage. 

We're quite happy with the technical support. We are satisfied as they are responding in time. They are giving us good answers. 

We did not previously use a different solution. We started with this product from scratch. We're still organizing our approaches to be more competitive.

We are implementing this solution with a variety of other solutions and setting everything up at once.

The solution is not so complex in that we don't want to resell any solution that we are not trying on ourselves. Therefore, we have a good understanding of how everything works, having done it ourselves.

We are still in production, and, after six months, we will begin deploying the solution.

On our side, we have three people working with MariaDB and two people at MariaDB helping as well.

We're working with our client's technical services to get everything deployed.

We don't have clarity on an ROI yet. We've just started using the solution. 

I can't speak to the exact pricing.

The cost of licensing is dependent on the projects. We have many types of licensing. We have a subscription and we also have some like lesson sheets that we buy. After, we just pay for the maintenance.

We evaluated many options. We went for simple software. We took Hadoop with Cloudera since the best version of Hadoop is Cloudera. Then, we have MariaDB on our HCI environment to secure all of this. There's a general sense of happiness with these products. It's really easy for us to use everything. Still, we are just at the beginning of the use phase.

We've started from scratch and we are using this product to build up use cases. 

We are a service company and we reselling the solution. We are working directly with MariaDB.

The product is easy to use. When you're a database administrator and you're working with databases, such as MariaDB, it's very, very, very easy. You get the performance, you get the security, and you get monitoring and disaster recovery. You're working in a secure area with the performance you need and can mass scale it which is very useful.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. We still are exploring all of the possibilities, however. 

It's easy to use and open source. Currently, I use it more and more as it is easier than the other.

It's easy to set up.

The product is open-source.

I don't know what we want to improve about it, however, we don't use it for everything. We use it for specific projects. It can fit my project, and we don't know how we can use it more.

The performance could be a bit better.

They could make the solution stronger. It's not stronger than PostgreSQL, for example.

I've used the solution for two years. 

The stability is good for how we use it. We don't use the replication and cluster. We only really use the standalone server and that's it.

We don't use technical support. I cannot speak to their services. 

It's not overly complex to set up. Maybe when we set up matters like replication, it's a little complicated, however, it's pretty easy.

We only need one person to maintain the product.

We did not have the help of integrators or consultants. We installed the server and deployment did not take too much time. It was about 20 minutes or 30 minutes to deploy.

The solution is open-source, therefore, it has no license.

The product is easy to use and not hard to learn, therefore, when someone asks me for a good DB to use, then I tell them about MariaDB.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use MariaDB for a crypto exchange. We are currently in a test environment.

The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us.

I have been using MariaDB for six months.

The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability.

MariaDB is scalable.

The DBA is enough for support for MariaDB at the moment. If we need more support, then they will contact the consultants.

We are using MySQL. We moved to MariaDB because we found out that it is better for the cloud environment.

MariaDB's initial setup is not complex. It's just straightforward. It took us one day to complete.

The implementation can be done via all DBA.

There is a monthly subscription to use MariaDB.

I rate MariaDB an eight out of ten.

Our primary use cases of this solution are for emails and all the functions you would expect from a server. MariaDB is deployed on-prem, on one of our Linux servers. 

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. 

MariaDB could be improved by adding more automation. 

We have been using this solution for the past five years or so. 

This solution is stable. For deployment and maintenance, we have a team of four admins. 

This solution is scalable. There are about 100 people in my company using MariaDB. 

I didn't use a different solution before implementing MariaDB. 

It is very simple to install MariaDB. We did it ourselves and it took less than a day. 

We implemented through an in-house team. 

We pay for a yearly license. We don't currently have plans to increase the number of users in the foreseeable future, but we will do so if we need to. 

I didn't evaluate other options before choosing. 

I rate MariaDB an eight out of ten. I recommend this solution to others considering implementation. 

From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap. 

MariaDB doesn't handle long or complex SQL queries quite as well as Oracle Database.

I've been working with MariaDB for four or five years.

MariaDB is highly stable. 

MariaDB is scalable.

Most of the issues we've had with MariaDB could be handled by doing a Google search for the answer online.

MariaDB is simple to install. The initial installation takes about four hours max. A couple of engineers can have it fully deployed in one or two days.

I rate MariaDB eight out of 10. I would recommend it to our customers. 

The solution is primarily used to store data and for our cloud platform backend database. I use the solution for many projects.

The solution's high availability is its most valuable aspect.

We have found the product to be stable. 

The initial setup is pretty simple. 

The stability could always continue to be improved upon.

I've been using the solution for three years. 

The solution is stable and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

There are about 100 end-users in my organization that use this product.

I've never dealt directly with technical support. When there has been an issue, I tend to work to solve the problem myself. 

There is so much information available, you can easily just Google the problem and likely you are able to troubleshoot the problem yourself. It's easy to find what you need online. 

I found the initial setup to be very simple and straightforward. 

The deployment was quick. It maybe only took one hour. 

We have a DPA team that's able to deploy the solution. For my department, we have six people on it and they're able to handle both deployment and maintenance. 

The implementation was handled in-house. I did not need the assistance of an integrator or consultant. 

We don't use a license, however, it is possible to pay for a yearly license if necessary.

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. I'm very happy with it overall. 

I would recommend the solution to others. It's easy to find details about the product online and to learn about it. 

Our software development team uses MariaDB and other databases as the storage facility for some of our applications.

Initially, we liked this solution because it is a drop-in replacement for MySQL.

The most valuable feature is that it uses multiple cores, which is better than some of the other databases. When we have eight or sixteen cores, the utilization ratio is a bit higher than previous versions of MySQL. I think perhaps the enterprise version of MySQL may have better support, but the free version does not work as well as MariaDB. This is with the factory default settings.

Scalability is an area that needs to be improved.

When we have had issues with accidental computer shutdown or a power outage, our MariaDB database was corrupted. This did not happen with our Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, so I think that there might be some differences in the database engine that better deals with these kinds of accidents.

We have been working with MariaDB for seven years, since 2013.

We have not experienced much in terms of instability. We have been running our instance since 2013 and it needs almost no maintenance. You just install it and forget it. It's that easy.

MariaDB works with just a little configuration for a small dataset, but it does not scale as well as Oracle of Microsoft SQL Server in our applications. For example, additional manual configuration or tweaks are needed so that a query will return in a reasonable time when there is a high volume of records.

Our client has between 10 and 30 concurrent users.

Getting proper support is sometimes difficult because when you have a technical issue and use Google to try and find a solution, there will be millions of results. You have to tackle it by yourself but even if there is the same error message, you can try every posted solution and it still might not work. There is not a single source of truth that you can rely on.

The initial setup is straightforward and I think that the installation can be completed in a couple of minutes.

We have our own team for deployment and maintenance.

I think that for a small team of fewer than ten people, such as a couple of developers, MariaDB is a very easy start. When the team size grows or when the complexity of the application grows, you might need to try other options such as Ingres or MySQL. In our case, at the very beginning, MariaDB covered almost every technical requirement for releasing version one of our application.

It is definitely a good start. Once the product has grown to a point where the developers know in which aspect MariaDB does not fulfill the requirements, then it's time to find a better match.

At this point, I cannot think of any additional features that I would like to see because most of what I want is already on the roadmap. I think that they plan to implement them one by one.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We are network services provider and we have the solution to store and process telecommunications infrastructure, network and customer services monitoring data. Our Monitoring applications rely on MariaDB to store, process and present telemetry data from different components of the network.

Previously, we didn't have a fast network monitoring solution that could be used to monitor everything we have on the network infrastructure. The solution has improved operations because all our customers are happy that we can provide them with high grade service monitoring . They're able to monitor services uptime, utilization and other statistics. The database stores a lot of additional data related to monitoring including inventory and notifications handling data.

The software provides a lot of information on what is happening inside the database. For most performance parameters  it is easy to know if something is not right in the configuration or optimization which helps engineers take remedial finetuning measures. For example if the database is underperforming it is easy to know which performance parameter  can be adjusted to handle the workload. It is difficult to troubleshoot database issues if many performance parameters can not be monitored or debugged which is the case with some  database management systems.

It provides great monitoring data storage, processing and performance stability which is really important for real-time data storage and processing. It's a user friendly product.

I'd like to see more time series data and additional partitioning support, natively if possible. I started using  MariaDB but then migrated one of my systems to PostgreSQL because it has good support for time series data, plus there's a plug-in that PostgreSQL uses for easy support of time-series data and partitioning and it is easy to use. MariaDB could have something like that which would provide better support for times series data and partitioning. Automatic partitioning would be helpful is natively supported, because at some point I experienced issues with database performance. Partitioning is a bit complex and we do everything in-house.

I'd like to see something that does automatic optimization or tuning. This will particularly be helpful to new users.

I have been using MariaDB for 4 years 

Performance and stability are good with small instances and average skilled database administrators to maintain it, we haven't had any issues with small instances. For large instances that handle a lot of ingress data and queries, good stability can be attained with high level tuning which requires highly skilled database administrators who can correctly tune and partition databases if needed.

We haven't really scaled it and we're still using the open source version which can also  be easily scaled if needs arise.

Our company runs on a tight budget so we haven't got any support, we do everything ourselves. I know from others who have implemented and have commercial agreements with MariaDB that the support is good but I don't have first-hand experience.

I used a monitoring system that used flat files to store monitoring data and at some points used MySQL for some systems

The initial setup was very straightforward, not complex at all. There are so many resources from the community.

We implemented in-house

I can confidently say 90%

There are no costs associated with this solution. It is a free and open source software although one can opt for a paid support from MariaDB

Yes I did evaluate other options. SQLite, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL and MySQL

I would recommend that if a company wants to do everything in-house and doesn't have technical support from MariaDB, it is important to have good database administrators, because the initial setup is straightforward, but a lot of optimization is needed, and it requires skillful database administrators. I recommend some good planning from the beginning, and it is important to figure out whether the company needs to do some database partitioning. Carrying out good research from the beginning is the wisest course when choosing MariaDB as a database. That will be so helpful in avoiding possible performance and tuning issues.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10.