MariaDB News and Articles

MariaDB Acquires Galera Cluster

12.06.2025

Galera Cluster has been part of MariaDB Server for several years.

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Interview with the MariaDB Foundation board Chairman Eric Herman

Enriched Ecosystem

Eric Herman, Chairman of the MariaDB Foundation board, sheds light on the evolving focus of the custodians of one of the most popular and widely used databases.
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A storage engine for every use case

Data Machine

You can choose from among a number of open source database storage engines for both general and specialized data.
Databases , MariaDB , MySQL , Storage
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New features in MariaDB 10.3

Mature

What lacked maturity in MariaDB 10.2 has now been sorted out in version 10.3. We look at the benefits you can reap now.
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Figure 1: The MariaDB 5.2.4 (top) and MySQL 5.5.8 mysql clients connecting to a MySQL 5.5.8 server. The MariaDB client shows (none) as the current database.

MariaDB vs. MySQL

MariaDB is a cousin of MySQL – but not an identical twin.

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