We performed a comparison between MariaDB and Percona Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Open Source Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."MariaDB is scalable."
"It is very simple to install, and the commands are exactly the same as MySQL."
"The product has good documentation and you can find many examples online."
"The solution runs very quickly. It's not slow at all."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is very stable. It was originally built under MySQL. It has a similar level of stability."
"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 has a straightforward initial setup with easy-to-understand documentation."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"MariaDB's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I’m not sure if it can scale."
"It would be good if they can maybe improve the mass import in the database. Currently, for importing a large number of data, we create a CSV file and upload all the things in the system. The system does not activate them by default. We have to do this manually. This may be due to the version we are using, but this is something we would like to see improved."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"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."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
MariaDB is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 51 reviews while Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while Percona Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora, whereas Percona Server is most compared with MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. See our MariaDB vs. Percona Server report.
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