The key differences between MariaDB and MySQL form the foundation of MariaDB's performance. MariaDB offers several more storage engines and supports over 200,000 connections.

Second, the MySQL and MariaDB implementations of the native JSON column data type are also different. This makes for slight incompatibilities that you will need to navigate if you’re migrating ...

Regardless of how you feel about Oracle, MySQL's owner; open-source vs. proprietary software; MariaDB's better performance at one of the world's busiest Web sites is going to draw attention from ...

This versatile software boasts high performance, speed and scalability. MariaDB is created by the same developers as MySQL - it offers more storage and allows you to run both SQL and NoSQL code in ...

Since then, under Oracle’s watch, MySQL has flatlined in popularity and started to decline, even as MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL have all increased in popularity.

In my experience, MariaDB has provided better performance compared to MySQL, so I highly recommend trying them out if you’re still running MySQL.

Linux distributors have been moving from Oracle's MySQL to its popular fork, MariaDB - and now Google is also moving to MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept ...

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't ...