MariaDB provides the same features of MySQL with some extensions. It is relatively new and advance.
A list of the features of MariaDB:
- MariaDB can run on different operating systems and support a wide variety of programming languages.
- MariaDB is licensed under GPL, LGPL, or BSD.
- MariaDB follows a standard and popular query language.
- MariaDB provides Galera cluster technology.
- MariaDB provides supports for PHP which is the most popular web development language.
- MariaDB includes a wide selection of storage engines, including high-performance storage engines for working with other RDBMS data sources.
- MariaDB also offers many operations and commands unavailable in MySQL and eliminates/replaces features impacting performance negatively.
- MariaDB's speed is one of its prominent features. It is remarkably scalable and can handle tens of thousands of tables and billions of rows of data.
