Difference between MySQL and MariaDB
What is MariaDB?
MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL database management system. The RDBMS offers data processing capabilities for both small and enterprise tasks. This DBMS is an improved version of MySQL. It comes with numerous inbuilt powerful features and many usabilities, security and performance improvements that you cannot find in MySQL.
What is MySQL?
Developed in the mid-90s., MySQL was one of the first open-source database available in the market. Today there are many alternatives variants of MySQL. However, the differences between the variants are not significant as they use the same syntax, and basic functionality also remains the same. MySQL is an RDBMS that helps you to keep the data that exists in a database organized. It is used with the combination of PHP and Apache Web Server, on top of a Linux distribution. MySQL uses the SQL language to query the database.
Difference between MariaDB and MySQL
Here is the major difference between MariaDB and MySQL:
Why use Maria DB?
Here, are pros/benefits of using Maria DB.
It operates under GPL, BSD, or LGPL licenses. MariaDB supports a popular and standard querying language. It comes with many storage engines, including the high-performance ones that can be integrated with other relational database management systems. It offers the advance Galera cluster technology. MariaDB supports PHP, a popular language for web development.
Why MYSQL?
There are several relational database management systems in the market. One may ask why we would choose MySQL over the other database management systems. The answer to this question depends on several factors.
MySQL supports multiple storage engines each with its specifications while other systems like SQL server only support a single storage engine. MySQL has a high performance compared to other relational database systems. This is due to its simplicity in design and support for multiple-storage engines.
History of MariaDB
5.1, GA released by MariaDB foundation on February 2010 November 2010 MariaDB 5.3 February 2012 MariaDB 5.5 April 2012 MariaDB Galera Cluster MariaDB 10.0.10 (March 2014) MariaDB 10.1.8 (October 2015) Maria DB 10.2: 8 April 2016 Maria DB 10.3: 16 April 2017 Maria DB 10.4: 9 November 2018 Maria DB 10.5: 3 December 2019 Maria DB 10.6: 26 April 2021
History of MySQL
First internal release version of MYSQL on 23 May 1995 Version 3.20: January 1997 Windows supported version was released on the year 1998 for Windows 95 and NT Version 3.23: beta from June 2000 Version 4.0: beta from August 2002 Version 4.01: beta from August 2003 Version 4.1: beta from June 2004 Version 5.0: beta from March 2005 Acquired by Sun in 2008 Version 5.1: 14 November 2008 Oracle Corp. acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 2010 Version 5.5: 3 December 2010 Version 5.6: 5 February 2013 Version 5.7: 21 October 2015 Version 8.0: 19 April 2018
Features of Maria DB
Here are important features of Maria DB.
Offers Backward Compatibility Open-source Software It is based on the MySQL Community Version New Storage Engine (PBXT, XtraDB, Maria, FederatedX) Percona Server (Based on MySQL Server, Other MySQL Fork Version)
Features of MySQL
Here are an important features of MySQL.
Scalability and Flexibility High Performance High Availability Robust Transactional Support Web and Data Warehouse Strengths
Disadvantages of MySQL
Here, are cons/ drawback of using MySQL:
It is hard to scale Oracle owns it, so it has lots of restrictions. MYSQL is not ideally suitable for large-sized data. It is Invisible from client applications. Triggers can impose a high load on the database server.
Disadvantages of MariaDB
The engine is still fairly new, so there’s no guarantee further updates and versions will be forthcoming. As with many other free database engines, you have to pay for support.
