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.

Since then, under Oracle’s watch, MySQL has flatlined in popularity and started to decline, even as MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL have all increased in popularity.

MariaDB, an open-source database management system (DBMS) and MySQL fork has been gaining inroads in enterprise software and its founders formed a foundation, the MariaDB Foundation, to promote ...

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 ...

At OpenWorks, MariaDB demonstrated how other open source relational databases such as PostgreSQL used with Xpand’s distributed SQL database scales beyond the conventional primary/replica architecture ...

But SQL databases, and the data consistency they offer, are still crucial to almost every enterprise, according to SkySQL, which offers commercial products based on the open-source MariaDB.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.

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.