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Kinetica vs MariaDB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Kinetica
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
41st
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
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Kinetica is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MariaDB is 3.2%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MariaDB3.2%
Kinetica0.8%
Other96.0%
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Featured Reviews

SunilAgarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice President and Global Head of Research and Development at Bqube Global
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.
PR
Architect at LTIMindtree
Cloud deployment has improved security and performance but still needs richer query features
MariaDB is easy to install. Performance of MariaDB has improved with the query optimizer. We use MariaDB's data-at-rest encryption. Encryption is available in MariaDB, so we are secure for transmitting data without concern about moving over networks. Query optimization in MariaDB is better than Oracle. We use advanced replication for MariaDB. Role-based access is available in MariaDB, which is a good feature. The technical support of MariaDB is very helpful. They came and tuned our queries with one-to-one assistance.

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 solution is very easy to implement."
"Great monitoring and performance stability."
"I would say that for most use cases it works fine."
"The solution is very easy to implement, the product makes it very easy to use as a primary database or a standby database, and the switches are easy to use."
"The solution is easy to set up and the implementation is very quick."
"For non-production purposes. I'm just using it for my personal project, so it works quite well. I haven't faced any errors yet."
"MariaDB is a fast and flexible tool."
"Our use of MariaDB is very basic, so it's a good platform compared to many others."
 

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."
"The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues."
"An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation."
"The ability to create stored procedures in MariaDB is an area where the tool lacks a bit."
"In future releases, mainly the addition of security features would be beneficial for MariaDB."
"MariaDB could be improved by adding more automation."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"A well-known issue for a lot of different users is associated with write-intensive applications."
"Data continuity could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a monthly subscription to use MariaDB."
"The cost is quite good. You can have the open source, free version, which has adequate capacity."
"MariaDB is open-source and self-hosted."
"It's an open-source solution."
"It is an open-source solution."
"The solution is free, but if you want the enterprise version you will need to pay for some licenses but the cost is less than other solutions, such as Oracle."
"The product is not expensive."
"The tool is open-source."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
9%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise26
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MariaDB?
MariaDB is in the pricey range, especially for huge databases handling terabytes of data. The cost depends on the volume of data and different features enabled during configuration, such as backup ...
What needs improvement with MariaDB?
The key area where MariaDB could be improved is its native GUI tooling; while the command-line interface works perfectly fine, the built-in visual tools for administration, management, and query de...
What is your primary use case for MariaDB?
My main use case for MariaDB was web applications, and I have been using MariaDB for just about a year now as I was in the development team. A specific web application where I used MariaDB is a hea...
 

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