Welcome to MariaDB!
MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality
for MySQL1. MariaDB is built by some of the original
authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of Free
and open source software developers. In addition to the core
functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature
enhancements including alternate storage engines, server
optimizations, and patches.
MariaDB is primarily driven by developers at
Monty Program, a company founded by Michael
"Monty" Widenius, the original author of MySQL, but this is not the whole story
about MariaDB. On the "About MariaDB" page you will
find more information about all participants in the MariaDB community,
including storage engines XtraDB and PBXT.
MariaDB.com is hosted by the Open Database Alliance, a
vendor-neutral consortium of open source database developers and
solution providers. The Open Database Alliance ensures you will find
products, support and services for MariaDB that are the very best the
software industry has to offer.
Thank you for your interest in MariaDB. We look forward to providing
you with a product and project that suits your needs, be it in a hobby
blog deployment or an enterprise-grade datacenter!
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1 MySQL is a trademark of Sun Microsystems
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