What is the difference between SQL and MariaDB?
07/27/2023 | by Patrick Fischer, M.Sc., Founder & Data Scientist: FDS
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was developed by the open source community. MariaDB is fully GPL licensed, while MySQL takes a dual licensing approach. MariaDB supports many different storage engines. In terms of application, MySQL and MariaDB do not differ. Both DBMSs strive for 100 percent compatibility with the SQL database language. MariaDB is ahead in high availability and scalability1.