MariaDB
GPL-only MySQL fork under a foundation, with Galera clustering and native vectors.
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What MariaDB is
MariaDB was forked from MySQL
5.1 by its original authors after Oracle acquired Sun, and is stewarded by the MariaDB
Foundation with MariaDB
plc selling support. It stays broadly wire- and dialect-compatible while diverging where it wants to: bundled Galera synchronous clustering, pluggable storage engines such as ColumnStore and Spider, and native vector search shipped in the community server ahead of MySQL
.