In recent benchmark testing, MariaDB performs somewhere between 13% to 36% faster than MySQL. Syntax differences Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, but MariaDB has several ...

MariaDB challenges MySQL with greater performance, more advanced features, and complete backward compatibility Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

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 ...

Reviewed: OS-repository DBMSs, MariaDB vs MySQL. When it comes to Linux software, there’s no shortage of options here, either, with numerous enterprise-class Linux server distros available, many ...

SkySQL, armed with the MariaDB MySQL clone, is going after Oracle's MySQL customers. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 23, 2014 at 10:42 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next, I edited MySQL’s configuration file /etc/my.cnf to match the text listed below. I ensured bind-address was set to 0.0.0.0 — this address instructs MySQL to accept connections from any IP ...

Also, I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my examples, because that's what I have installed, and because I like the improvements MariaDB includes in both the command-line client and in the database ...

This white paper compares MariaDB, Oracle and EnterpriseDB and their databases: MariaDB TX, MySQL Enterprise Edition and EnterpriseDB Postgres Platform. It begins with a comparison of business models ...