MariaDB

What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is a popular, open-source relational database management system, created by the original developers of MySQL as a drop-in replacement for it.

MariaDB was created after MySQL was acquired by Oracle Corporation, with its original developers choosing to make it a community-driven open-source project. It was first released in 2009.

How does MariaDB differ from MySQL?

MariaDB is designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, offering many of the same features, including support for SQL and a variety of storage engines. However, it also includes a number of enhancements and improvements.

MariaDB is known for its performance, partly thanks to storage engines such as Aria and InnoDB. It also offers additional security features, including the ability to encrypt data at rest and improved auditing. Being fully open source, it benefits from an active community of developers who respond quickly to user needs.

MariaDB and MIDAS

MariaDB is fully supported as the database backend for MIDAS. If you run a self-hosted edition, you can use MariaDB to store all of your booking data. We even provide a guide to manually creating a MySQL or MariaDB database for MIDAS.