MariaDB tutorial

Features of MariaDB

MariaDB can be understood as the advanced version of MySQL, as it provides the same features of MySQL but with some extensions. MariaDB offers some unique features that are listed below.

Licenced under GPL, LGPL, or BSD.
Includes a wide selection of storage engines (including high-performance storage engines), for working with other RDBMS data sources.
Uses a standard and popular querying language.
Runs on a number of operating systems.
Supports a wide variety of programming languages.
Facilitates support for PHP.
Facilitates Galera cluster technology.
Facilitates many operations and commands unavailable in MySQL.
Eliminated and replaced the MySQL features that have a negative impact on the performance.

Versions of MariaDB:

Latest Version	Release Date	Original Version	Release Date	Status
5.1.67	2013-01-30[13]	5.1	2009-10-29[12]	Stable
5.2.14	2013-01-30[15]	5.2	2010-04-10[14]	Stable
5.3.12	2013-01-30[17]	5.3	2011-07-26[16]	Stable
5.5.56	2017-05-03[19]	5.5	2012-02-25[18]	Stable
10.0.31	2017-05-23[21]	10	2012-11-12[20]	Stable
10.1.24	2017-05-31[23]	10.1	2014-06-30[22]	Stable
10.2.6	2017-05-23[25]	10.2	2016-04-18[24]	Stable
10.3.0	2017-04-16[27]	10.3	2017-04-16[26]	Alpha