Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, but MariaDB has several additional features. Basic SQL syntax remains the same, but MariaDB handles data storage and functions differently.

Over the past few years, the open source relational database management systems MySQL and MariaDB have undergone tremendous changes: new and improved features, fixes for long-standing problems ...

If you still think MySQL is too entrenched to be moved from its spot as the number one, open-source DBMS, you might to look at what Wikipedia is doing.

MariaDB® Corporation, the company behind the fastest growing open source database, today announced that MariaDB Server replaces MySQL as the default in Debian 9, a popular Linux distribution.

Fedora Linux's developers are considering replacing MySQL with MariaDB. That, in turn, might lead to Red Hat abandoning MySQL for MariaDB.

The announcement coincides with the general release of MariaDB 10 database, the drop-in replacement for the open-source MySQL that Enterprise 2 and Enterprise Cluster 2 are based on.

Progress Software PRGS 0.93% confirmed it made an offer to acquire MariaDB, joining K1 Investment Management in those looking to scoop up the database server company.

In this lecture we will work with the offshoot MariaDB, which is gradually becoming the new standard in common Linux distributions. At first, the general basics of programming relational databases are ...

Installation I won't go into how to install MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 here. Most distributions have packages for them, and in the case of MariaDB, there are packages for Debian, Ubuntu, ...