Getting Started with MariaDB

MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported relational database management system.

This purpose of this README is to provide you with a brief introduction to the MariaDB database products, information on how to get started and additional resources you can use to learn more about MariaDB.

Table of Contents

1. MariaDB Database Products
   1. MariaDB Community Server
   2. MariaDB Enterprise
   3. MariaDB Cloud
2. Helpful Resources
3. Support and contribution

MariaDB Database Products

MariaDB Community Server

MariaDB Community Server is the open source relational database loved by developers all over the world. It is compatible with MySQL, Oracle and other SQL databases, and is guaranteed to stay open source forever. Key features include modern SQL, pluggable storage engines, columnar storage for analytics and high availability.

Get Started

• Download and install MariaDB Community directly from mariadb.com
• Using the official Docker image
• Zero to MariaDB with AWS EC2 and Docker
• Zero to MariaDB with Azure VM and Docker
• Zero to MariaDB with GCE VMs and Docker

MariaDB Enterprise Server

MariaDB Enterprise is the complete, production-grade open source database solution. It supports transactional, analytical and combination workloads as well as relational, JSON and hybrid data models. MariaDB Enterprise can deploy standalone databases and data warehouses to fully distributed SQL, which executes millions of transactions per second and performs interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows.

Get Started

• Download and install MariaDB Enterprise directly from mariadb.com
• Using the beta Docker image
• Zero to MariaDB with AWS EC2 and Docker
• Zero to MariaDB with Azure VM and Docker
• Zero to MariaDB with GCE VMs and Docker

MariaDB Cloud

MariaDB Cloud allows enterprise organizations to realize the benefits of a managed database service, including ease of use, without sacrificing the very things needed to support mission-critical applications, including enterprise features, custom configuration, deployment flexibility, technical and consultative support, on-demand upgrades and bug fixes/security patches. It’s MariaDB Enterprise Server in the cloud, managed by MariaDB (the experts) using automation and world-class database strategies.

Get Started

• Contact MariaDB about our expert-managed MariaDB Cloud

Helpful Resources

• MariaDB Corporation GitHub
• Official MariaDB Documentation
• MariaDB product pages
  • Community Server
  • Enterprise
  • MariaDB Cloud

Support and Contribution

Please feel free to submit PR's, issues or requests to this project project or projects within the official MariaDB Corporation GitHub organization.

If you have any other questions, comments, or looking for more information on MariaDB please check out:

• MariaDB Developer Hub
• MariaDB Community Slack

Or reach out to us directly via:

• [email protected]
• MariaDB Twitter