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As of August 2025, the mindshare of MariaDB in the Open Source Databases category stands at 6.7%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
8%
University
7%
Government
7%
Retailer
4%
Construction Company
3%
Healthcare Company
3%
Hospitality Company
3%
Media Company
3%
Performing Arts
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Non Profit
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Insurance Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
1%

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GK
Senior Cloud Performance Engineer at Oracle
Verified user of MariaDB
Jun 23, 2024
Excels for well-defined tasks involving specific data sets, is user-friendly, and scalable

Pros

"It delivers fast processing times, particularly for frequent select queries and insert/update operations."

Cons

"While MariaDB is a good relational database, it can be inflexible for complex use cases."
KumarManish - PeerSpot user
Senior Technical Manager at Johnson Controls, Inc.
Verified user of MariaDB
May 9, 2024
Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products

Pros

"The integration with other products is seamless."

Cons

"There is not much support available."
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Site Reliability Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of MariaDB
Jul 24, 2024
Not very complicated to maintain and offers an open-source version

Cons

"A well-known issue for a lot of different users is associated with write-intensive applications."
Ton Ancheta - PeerSpot user
General Manager at Xurpas Software, Inc.
Verified user of MariaDB
Sep 13, 2024
Offers good query speed to users

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the query speed it offers."

Cons

"The ability to create stored procedures in MariaDB is an area where the tool lacks a bit."
Mark Griffith - PeerSpot user
Associate, Software Developer (Appian) at The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Verified user of MariaDB
Dec 7, 2023
A cloud-based tool that offers great speed with a need to improve in the area of document caching

Pros

"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast. "

Cons

"Document caching is an area of concern in the product, where improvements are required to help MariaDB improve on the previous queries as they are retained, and you can roll back to them."
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Product Manager at Hyundai Autoever Company
Verified user of MariaDB
Nov 5, 2023
Lightweight application, employ multi-processing but indexes are not as strong

Pros

"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down. "

Cons

"The customer service and support are okay. But the response time is slow. Moreover, the material is not available freely. "
Aidan McCarthy - PeerSpot user
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of MariaDB
Aug 18, 2023
Offers certain unique features that distinguish it from other databases but requires improvement in materialized views

Pros

"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently. "

Cons

"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server. "
PeerSpot user
Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of MariaDB
Sep 29, 2024
Solid and reliable database server with excellent multi-master setups

Pros

"The initial setup of MariaDB is simple enough."

Cons

"The only potential area for improvement could be the pricing model, which might benefit from being more flexible or a bit cheaper."