Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, but MariaDB has several additional features. Basic SQL syntax remains the same, but MariaDB handles data storage and functions differently.

What’s more, many old-school relational databases, MySQL and MariaDB among them, took a page from the NoSQL book and added JSON support as a standard feature. The net effect is NoSQL when you ...

MariaDB never should have happened. Monty Widenius, the founder of both MySQL and MariaDB, made a bundle selling MySQL to Oracle years ago, but he then launched MariaDB to try to return the heart ...

Mariadb is a fork of the MYSQL database management system. The RDBMS offers data processing capabilities for both small and enterprise tasks. This RDBMS is an improved verison of MYSQL. It comes with ...

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus ...