MariaDB Reviews

Our clients have a variety of use cases. I'm not familiar with just one.

The solution is very easy to implement.

The product makes it very easy to use as a primary database or a standby database.

The switches are easy to use.

The initial setup is pretty fast.

The solution offers very good automatic features.

The GUI could be improved a bit. The user interface needs to be improved.

I haven't tested the latest version of the solution. There may have been updated and changes that I am not aware of.

The stability of the solution could be improved, as we've had issues.

It would be ideal if the solution could offer an active-active cluster.

We have been dealing with the solution for about one year. It hasn't been too long.

The stability of the solution isn't perfect. I personally have had some issues. It's something that they need to work on.

I've never really dealt with the scalability aspect of the solution. I'm not sure how it would handle the process. I've only tried the DR side, in order to have primary and standby.

I don't have any experience with technical support. I can't speak to how knowledgeable or responsive they are at this time.

The initial setup doesn't take too long. It's standalone, so it will maybe take one hour to install the machine. It's fairly straightforward, and not too complex. A company shouldn't have any issues with the setup.

You only really need two people for deployment and maintenance. YOu don't need a very big team to manage everything.

We are using the community version of the solution.

We implement the solution. We typically deal with on-premises deployments. We use the latest version of the solution.

Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I'd recommend the solution. We've largely been happy with it so far.

We use the solution for a certain database model. The application helps with recovery.

The solution is open source. The documentation is quite straightforward. It is a flexible database used in many cases, such as central bank systems, simple websites, and IoT projects.

Data continuity could be improved.

The stability is good, but we have received feedback from our review process that there are some weaknesses. For example, if MariaDB is running on our NOS Lake Red Hat and you perform an update, this can cause problems because the update may not be compatible with the OS. Therefore, it is important to keep MariaDB and the OS separate and to upgrade them separately.

The solution’s scalability is terrible. We need an office admin for the maintenance. We have around eighty to a hundred users using this solution.

The documentation is clear so there was no need to talk to technical support.

The initial setup is easy and takes less than an hour to complete. I installed MariaDB and set it up. They want it up and running, and I will give them the connection stream and everything else they need to keep the connection alive.

I recommend using the product. I have no specific advice and no complaints. If someone wants to use it, there’s no better way. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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.

MariaDB is mainly used for current applications where there are connectors already in place with CROs that create everything in the architecture.

The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the power it provides. It is a powerful solution.

MariaDB could improve by adding support for non-relational structures and new data types.

I have been using MariaDB for approximately two years.

The way we configure MariaDB, it's very scalable and there is no performance issue.

We have approximately 10,000 end-users using this solution.

I have not used the technical support from MariaDB.

I have previously used MySQL. I switched from MySQL to MariaDB because there are more updates with MariaDB

The initial setup of MariaDB was simple. It took a few hours. We started with one server and then we did monitoring of the platform to see if the performance was adequate or not. If it was a bit underperforming, we would add resources, such as CPU and memory. If it was a larger gap, we would add a new server to the cluster.

We have approximately 10 people in the DevOps team that look after the solution.

MariaDB is a free-to-use solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate MariaDB an eight out of ten.

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. 

I use this product as a support tool, mainly as a repository for information. I'm a consultant and we implement this solution for our customers. 

MariaDB is a commodity so its value is its ease of use and its availability in most environments. The product is really easy to set up, it's just a matter of doing a PT install and it's done. 

I'd like to see more integration with user platforms.

I've been using this solution for six years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is very scalable. We only have three users in our company but I have hundreds of customers that use MariaDB. 

The initial setup took less than 15 minutes. We implemented it ourselves. The solution manages itself. 

I recommend this solution. It's great for web applications and it just works. I rate this solution nine out of 10. 

There are no problems with MariaDB and it works fine.

The price could be less expensive.

I have been using MariaDB for more than five years now.

I have no problems with the stability.

MariaDB is scalable.

I have not currently had to use technical support.

The setup is not complex but straightforward. The time frame to deploy was about two hours.

I would rate MariaDB a ten on a scale of one to ten.

We are using MariaDB for our federation of identity system, which is used to record students, service providers, and many other things. This system uses MariaDB as a database. 

We use MariaDB for identity provider services. Most of the things that we are doing are deployed in the container mode. All such solutions require a database, and MariaDB is easier to use for these kinds of deployments.

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.

I have been using this solution for five years. 

It is stable. We have no issues.

It is scalable. We are a regional research and education network. MariaDB is a part of the tools that we have deployed to provide services for such institutions. Three other national research and education institutes are also using it, and all of these institutions have many campus users. So, a large number of users are using it, but they don't even know that it is MariaDB because they are just using the tool or the application that has MariaDB as backend. We do plan to increase its usage in the future.

We didn't contact them.

I won't say we switched because we still have another system running PostgreSQL. We started using MariaDB because we were using some tools for identity federation, and these tools come with MariaDB by default. We did not choose MariaDB as a standalone product. If we stop using any of these tools tomorrow, we may no longer use MariaDB.

The initial setup is very simple because we are using a container, which means that it is just a deployment. It is a part of the installation of other applications. 

We didn't have to install MariaDB as a standalone product. We installed an identity management system, which automatically requires MariaDB, and all these things are done through containers. It is very easy these days when you are using a container. Everything is straightforward. It is just a matter of calling and installing them.

The initial installation was done by a consultant. Since then, we have deployed many other instances of the same thing. It is the same container, and we keep on deploying it. We just change the configuration.

We have only one person for its deployment and maintenance. We have a network and system admin who deals with the installation for us. We are just using MariaDB behind our federation of identity system. So, we don't deal with it daily. When we want to connect a university or any university wants to join, we install the application that has MariaDB, and that's all.

I would definitely recommend this solution. It has worked very well for us so far. I have no complaints about it.

I would rate MariaDB a nine out of ten.