Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible server zone-redundant deployment provides 99.99% availability with zonal-level resiliency, whereas MariaDB provides resiliency in a single availability zone.

“MariaDB is the database that powers billions of users on sites like Booking.com and Wikipedia,” noted Paige Liu, a Microsoft Azure software engineer, in a Nov. 5 announcement.

As a platinum sponsor, the company is joining Booking.com, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud. In addition, Microsoft is also launching a preview of the Azure Database for MariaDB service today.

Database administrators can deploy the new MariaDB Enterprise Cluster with MaxScale fairly simply by finding it inside Azure’s storefront for software vendors and going through a brief setup ...

Building on the cloud-native storage support from its X4 Enterprise platform, MariaDB is now going live with SkySQL, it's managed cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).

MariaDB Corporation also plans to add a Microsoft Azure-based SkySQL offering, but timing for that is less clear. Johnson said an Azure offering wouldn't come before the AWS offering is released ...