MariaDB Room for Improvement
MariaDB is everything that SQL DB has, but it's much lighter and more flexible. It's also more expandable. So I don't think MariaDB has any disadvantages compared to SQL DB.
So the only issue is that it's not as lightweight as SQL DB. That's probably the only drawback.
In future releases, mainly the addition of security features would be beneficial for MariaDB. It would be great to have built-in capabilities that can be managed through plug-ins and system administration. This would require incorporating security measures into the code, which is a one-time activity but needs to be maintained. Wrappers can also be written for reusability and improved security. That's something MariaDB could benefit from.
View full review »An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation. When it comes to higher availability, that's where it gets more complicated. I think the system needs to be more mature, especially for enterprises.
They could improve the replication rate. I know the connection pool goes up to 20,000 connections. It should be more accessible.
The interface and integration could also be improved.
I'd like to see more time series data and additional partitioning support, natively if possible. I started using MariaDB but then migrated one of my systems to PostgreSQL because it has good support for time series data, plus there's a plug-in that PostgreSQL uses for easy support of time-series data and partitioning and it is easy to use. MariaDB could have something like that which would provide better support for times series data and partitioning. Automatic partitioning would be helpful is natively supported, because at some point I experienced issues with database performance. Partitioning is a bit complex and we do everything in-house.
I'd like to see something that does automatic optimization or tuning. This will particularly be helpful to new users.
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I'm interested in witnessing the integration of materialized views, which would enable the preservation of select queries. This particular functionality seems to be absent in MariaDB when compared to rival relational databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. The inclusion of this feature, akin to the offering from PostgreSQL, would be a valuable addition to MariaDB's capabilities.
View full review »We'd like more data intelligence. We are working with a client who needs a lot of information about Oracle groups that come in the country, on the passenger name records, and so on. We need more intelligence around that in order to work better.
There is room for improvement in terms of security.
View full review »The PL/SQL performance is slow. If you have big batch jobs running in the middle of the night for a bank doing its end-of-day audits, then MariaDB will take three times longer than using Oracle. The product lacks sufficient detail in its reports. MariaDB has many extra features that would help to optimize the DB in the enterprise version and it would be helpful if it were possible to add some of those features in the open source version.
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Eric Espino
IT Manager at Melones Oil Terminal
I don’t have any particular issue with the solution. It works well for my purposes.
I’m not sure if it can scale, so I’m not sure how it would fare for significant companies. I know that MariaDB has a cluster solution that I don't need at the moment. Probably, it would be a good idea to have a way just to confirm that the cluster is available for when I require scaling.
View full review »MariaDB is a bit technical product, so whoever uses it will have to read a lot of documentation, which I don't think is a disadvantage of the product as it is just its nature. I believe that open-source products, in general, are a bit more advanced than regular systems. The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues.
It doesn't have the same level of maturity metrics as Postgres.
For example, if you look at the architecture of Postgres, it has an architecture similar to Oracle, a robust and widely practiced architecture. In terms of multi-database support, both Postgres and MySQL have the same objective.
Every software, including MariaDB, has its own advantages and features tailored to customer needs. In my opinion, it's a very good solution. I don't have any points to criticize it as a database. We prioritize the needs of our customers and choose from various options accordingly. For instance, MariaDB or MySQL could be suitable options depending on the specific requirements of the project.
In the future release, better management of tablespaces would be beneficial. Currently, it's a bit lacking in that area. Additionally, more efficient space utilization could be improved.
View full review »My company hasn't seen any problems with the solution where it has been running. The solution works fine for the purpose it is meant for, so there are no issues.
MariaDB should provide HA and archive logging. If HA and archive logging are present in the solution, it is hard to find them. The aforementioned details related to HA and archive logging need to be considered for improvement. I haven't had the opportunity to use the features provided by the solution since I don't know how to see them.
MariaDB can improve by adding more features. There are a lot of features, which are available in Oracle, and which are not available in MariaDB. We hope they will introduce the features soon.
In a future release, MariaDB should add more collections. We want parallel processing.
View full review »There is no guide provided to first-time users by the solution. For first-time users, there should be some sort of guide provided by the solution explaining what the product offers so that they don't have to search for it on Google. The very first time that users use the product, they should be able to use the database server and move it to phpMyAdmin.
MariaDB's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
Document caching is an area of concern in the product, where improvements are required to help MariaDB improve on the previous queries as they are retained, and you can roll back to them.
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Ashish Ashish
Product Manager at Hyundai Autoever Company
In MariaDB, three aspects can be enhanced, starting with the indexes. Currently, the indexes are not as strong. The second area is related to exclusion queries, subqueries, or joins. There's one join that isn't fully supported, the product I came across about MariaDB.
Customer support can also be improved.
View full review »The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server.
If you want to gain more transactions at MariaDB over the Microsoft SQL Server, you have to do lots of fine-tuning and combine a lot of parameters to get more transactions per second over the Microsoft SQL Server or another database. I reach the limits of MySQL at 15,000 transactions per second. MariaDB should aim to be better.
They should have more integrations with BI tools.
View full review »There's an enterprise version. However, right now, we are using free versions. Our chunks of data are a low amount of data. We'd like it to be able to handle more or to have something between free and enterprise that can handle more.
The maintenance and performance could be a bit better.
There is no available pivot table. There is no facility available in MariaDB.
The failed login attempt feature is not available.
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Siddhika Rane
Talent Acquisition Specialist at Nine A Business Connect
The configuration could be improved. It should be easier.
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reviewer2274873
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Sharding and the platform's vertical and horizontal extension and growth or scalability are areas with shortcomings that need improvement in MariaDB.
View full review »It should work across all fields like SQLite, as it is the basis of any application, even apps for phones and the like.
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Dinh Tran
Developer at Greenglobal
I don't know what we want to improve about it, however, we don't use it for everything. We use it for specific projects. It can fit my project, and we don't know how we can use it more.
The performance could be a bit better.
They could make the solution stronger. It's not stronger than PostgreSQL, for example.
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Sahul Hameed
Senior Data Engineer at Nike
The dashboard and pricing need improvement.
View full review »Data continuity could be improved.
View full review »MariaDB could improve by adding support for non-relational structures and new data types.
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SanjaySharma2
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There is the need for a robust IDE for MongoDB. The existing PHP admin console doesn't meet the client's requirements effectively.
View full review »The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us.
View full review »Integration with AWS could be improved.
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Sergio Ferreira
Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow
I'd like to see more integration with user platforms.
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ZelalemGedefie
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University
The price could be less expensive.
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Maria Nunzia Galdi
Technical Staff at UNIFI-HOME-imse01.mc_rsh
I would like to see a better user interface which would make the tool less complex.
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