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LAMP Stack Ubuntu vs MariaDB on CentOS comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

LAMP Stack Ubuntu
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
21st
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MariaDB on CentOS
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
30th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Operating Systems (OS) for Business category, the mindshare of LAMP Stack Ubuntu is 0.1%. The mindshare of MariaDB on CentOS is 0.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Operating Systems (OS) for Business Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
LAMP Stack Ubuntu0.1%
MariaDB on CentOS0.1%
Other99.8%
Operating Systems (OS) for Business
 

Featured Reviews

Davide Cariola - PeerSpot reviewer
EdTech Project manager at Aulab
Open source stack has powered flexible, reliable web development across all our projects
Developers choose LAMP Stack Ubuntu to build web applications for several reasons. All LAMP technologies are open source, which means that any developer or company can use them without having to pay licensing fees. It's a very efficient stack because setting up a new web development stack usually requires rigorous testing, whereas LAMP Stack Ubuntu is a tried and tested web development solution. It's very easy to use and can speed up application development. It's also very easy to maintain because software experts from around the globe contribute to the development of LAMP Stack Ubuntu technologies by reviewing the publicly available source code and updating it. They regularly maintain the technology so it remains secure and relevant. As a popular open source technology, LAMP Stack Ubuntu has the support of a huge global IT community.LAMP Stack Ubuntu gives both reliability and flexibility to web developers. Lots of my websites, and also websites in my company, are using LAMP Stack Ubuntu to work on the servers. It's very impactful in my company because we use this technology extensively.
Giovanni Baruzzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Syntlogo GmbH
Reliable clustering has ensured continuous access and has simplified high‑availability operations
The Galera Cluster feature has helped me with high availability because it is stable, requiring at least three servers to have a stable cluster. If one member of the cluster stops for any reason, the service continues working, and as you restart the server, it synchronizes everything with the other members. It is very well designed; while it is a complex feature and is documented, every improvement in this area would be helpful, and this is a suggestion for the Galera and MariaDB on CentOS developers. MariaDB on CentOS is a very good SQL database that is open source, meaning no license cost for users. There are even commercial editions that offer support, but basically, you do not need to pay any license. It is very dependable and very clear.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"LAMP Stack Ubuntu is cost efficient, easy to maintain, has a lot of support, and has a lot of flexibility, making it an all-round technology that is easy to use."
"The best features LAMP Stack Ubuntu offers are easy installation, stability, security, and being open source, so we do not need to worry about licensing costs."
"MariaDB on CentOS has positively impacted our organization in several ways."
"MariaDB on CentOS is almost identical to MySQL, and the experience is very similar."
"MariaDB on CentOS is faster than Oracle."
"MariaDB on CentOS is a very good SQL database that is open source, meaning no license cost for users."
"MariaDB on CentOS has positively impacted my organization by providing more features compared to Oracle MySQL, particularly in terms of performance, advantages, and implemented features, leading to migrations from Oracle MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS."
 

Cons

"LAMP Stack Ubuntu could be improved because it is very dependent on PHP."
"One of the things that is not ideal is that the version which is default is sometimes older than the very latest."
"I think MariaDB on CentOS needs improvements in some memory-level implementations within the operating system, as I have noticed issues related to memory orientation, such as out-of-memory problems."
"Many functionalities are not available in MariaDB on CentOS, so those aspects needed to be rewritten, particularly Oracle proprietary features."
"You can always improve a product, and the area that is very sensitive in MariaDB on CentOS is the release and the backward compatibility."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LAMP Stack Ubuntu?
LAMP Stack Ubuntu is completely open source, so there is no pricing, no cost, and no licensing.
What needs improvement with LAMP Stack Ubuntu?
The only way to improve LAMP Stack Ubuntu is to improve the knowledge about how it works and how to update it, helping it become more powerful than it currently is. However, it's pretty useful as i...
What is your primary use case for LAMP Stack Ubuntu?
Practically all of the websites I worked on are built on a LAMP Stack Ubuntu technology.There are different types of websites using LAMP Stack Ubuntu, such as blogs, e-commerce, back offices, and g...
What is your primary use case for MariaDB on CentOS?
I use MariaDB on CentOS as a database for other applications, and in our field, we need absolute availability. MariaDB on CentOS offers, with an additional product called Galera, a very dependable ...
What advice do you have for others considering MariaDB on CentOS?
I am working with many technologies, including a quite old and stable technology named LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and some relatively new technologies for us, such as a Linux data...
 

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