Maria DB offers various advantages over its competitors. It offers the ability to simultaneously use active server capabilities. This feature is very attractive for this type of solution.

We also evaluated PostgreSQL.

With our experience with MySQL, we thought we needed to convert most of the queries to PostgreSQL. MariaDB was much closer to MySQL than to PostgreSQL, and PostgreSQL hasn't moved quickly enough compared to MariaDB.

PostgreSQL is quite high end, but there were differences in the syntax of the scale. We didn't want to be involved in converting the syntax.

We evaluated other options, such as PostgreSQL, before choosing MariaDB.

When we were doing the technical evaluation, we considered MariaDB, Finsecure, and AWS cloud databases. Based on that, we made the decision.

We evaluated many options. We went for simple software. We took Hadoop with Cloudera since the best version of Hadoop is Cloudera. Then, we have MariaDB on our HCI environment to secure all of this. There's a general sense of happiness with these products. It's really easy for us to use everything. Still, we are just at the beginning of the use phase.

I have used MySQL or Oracle products. 

MariaDB, being open source, is a significant advantage, especially considering we use the enterprise edition. It's considerably much cheaper than Oracle, which is a proprietary database with high licensing costs. So, from a financial perspective, MariaDB is far more economical. 

Another advantage lies in its robust online community, simplifying troubleshooting and assistance. While we do have enterprise support, the online community and resources are quite valuable. 

As for cons, due to fewer contributors compared to other databases like MariaDB, certain features might experience slower development. Amazon and MariaDB Corporation are among the contributors, but it's an area that could use more attention. However, overall, MariaDB remains a strong choice.

With PostgreSQL, it's simply the archive logging functionality and remote hard clustering capabilities.

My company is not familiar with how the functionalities of PostgreSQL would work for MariaDB or MySQL.

I've used PostgreSQL before, but that was in a personal capacity just for my own personal projects. Using MariaDB depends on the application I'm trying to deploy or what I'm trying to use. That's what determines if I will use MariaDB or Postgres as SQL.

I didn't evaluate other options before choosing. 

Yes I did evaluate other options. SQLite, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL and MySQL

MariaDB is the solution that was finalized when looking and comparing it with Oracle and MySQL. MariaDB has an advantage due to the columnar queries and data retrieval.

We do have clients looking at this product against MySQL. However, only one customer has chosen this product over MySQL so far.

We have worked, and still work based on customers’ requests, with most commercial and open source databases: Oracle DB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and ECC.

For clients predominantly using Microsoft technologies, especially Microsoft SQL, it aligns well with their technical stack. MS SQL is particularly suitable for reporting and analytics purposes.

We have recently upgraded to change our database and our production database is now MySQL 5.7. If someone wants to use memory based data, then MySQL is better than MariaDB.

We are using MySQL but MariaDB can solve things better than MySQL. Maria DB has better performance than MySQL.

Sometimes Percona is better.

We have not compared this product to many others. 

We switched due to a common OS integration strategy.