The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

MariaDB offers the JSON column type, which allows one to save JSON files and query their contents in a structured way. During experiments with this type, I found missing syntax highlighting of several ...

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ...

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MariaDB database server and phpMyAdmin on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu MariaDB is a fork of the wildly popular open source database MySQL. Although MariaDB is ...

MariaDB is launching MariaDB Server 10.3.5, adding temporal data processing, Oracle compatibility features, and other improvements in its next candidate release. The announcement was first made during ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...