Features

Here is a list of features that MariaDB provides: Since it has been released under the GPL version 2, it is free. It is completely open source. Open contributions and suggestions are encouraged. MariaDB is one of the fastest databases available. Its syntax is pretty simple, flexible and easy to manage. It can be easily imported or exported from CSV and XML. It is useful for both small as well as large databases, containing billions of records and terabytes of data in hundreds of thousands of tables. MariaDB includes pre-installed storage engines like Aria, XtraDB, PBXT, FederatedX and SphinxSE. The use of the Aria storage engine makes complex queries faster. Aria is usually faster since it caches row data in memory and normally doesn't have to write the temporary rows to disk. Some storage engines and plugins are pre-installed in MariaDB. It has a very strong community.