MariaDB Corporation is the leader in open source database solutions for high availability, scalability, and performance. The company was built by the founder and core engineering team behind MySQL, with over 400 collective years of MySQL-related experience. Today MariaDB is the database that powers billions of users on sites like Google and Wikipedia. Moreover, MariaDB is the new “M” in LAMP, having displaced MySQL as the default database in the Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributions. MariaDB is also included in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Rackspace and other cloud stacks, and it is the database of choice for IBM’s Turbo LAMP stack. MariaDB has more than 2 million users globally and 500 customers in more than 45 countries, including global brands such as Google, Facebook, HP, Wikipedia, Deutsche Telekom, Virgin Mobile, and Booking.com.
MariaDB has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Databases (Oct 2014).
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