MariaDB

Provides excellent speed and performance with advanced features like transaction management and SQL support.

Integrates with various frameworks and applications, ensuring ease of use and broad compatibility.

Open-source nature saves on licensing costs and supports a strong user community for assistance.

Offers a broad range of data management features like encryption, backup/restore tools, and high availability clustering.

Acts as a fast, reliable, and highly scalable database, suitable for various applications and workloads.

May have limited options for additional apps and connectors in the Marketplace, affecting advanced functionalities.

Some users find the queries and insertions in MariaDB can lead to deadlocks, causing performance issues.

Documentation complexity and lack of user-friendly interfaces can hinder ease of use, especially for beginners.

Lacks built-in GUI tools for easy interaction, leading to dependency on third-party tools like PHPMyAdmin.

In some cases, users encounter challenges with backups/restores and synchronization issues in complex setups like Galera clusters.