Comparison

MariaDB vs Neon

On the evidence we track, Neon leads this comparison with a composite score of 72/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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MariaDB50

★Neon72

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	MariaDB	NeonLeader
vioscaleAI score	50 / 100low · 42%	72 / 100medium · 70%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	open_source	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	17	2
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Pcisecurity.pci	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	4.7	-
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=openinfradev%2Fmariadb&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	-
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	-	99.95
Status pagereliability.status_page	-	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	8,358	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	-
Release
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	GPL-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	C++	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	5 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

MariaDB50 / 100low · 42%

Neon72 / 100medium · 70%

Pricing

Free tier

MariaDB✓

Neon✓

Model

MariaDBopen_source

Neonfreemium

Price level

MariaDBfree

Neonlow

Transparent

MariaDB✓

Neon✗

Integrations

Count

MariaDB17

Neon2

Security

Disclosure policy

MariaDB✓

Neon–

Fedramp

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Gdpr

MariaDB✓

Neon✓

Hipaa

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Iso27001

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Pci

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Scorecard

MariaDB4.7

Neon–

Soc2

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Vulnerabilities

MariaDBCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=openinfradev%2Fmariadb&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Neon–

Reliability

Sla pct

MariaDB–

Neon99.95

Status page

MariaDB–

Neon✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

MariaDB0

Neon–

Github stars

MariaDB8,358

Neon–

Activity

Commits last 30d

MariaDB100

Neon–

Release

History

MariaDB20 items

Neon–

License

Spdx

MariaDBGPL-2.0

Neon–

Language

Primary

MariaDBC++

Neon–

Market

Availability

MariaDBAvailable worldwide

Neon–

Content

Faq

MariaDB7 items

Neon5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Relational Databases
Capability	MariaDB	Neon
Core
SQL model	Full SQL	Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions	Full	Full
Highest isolation level	-	Serializable
Consistency
Consistency	Tunable	Strong
Scale
Horizontal scale	Natively distributed	Read replicas
Replication
Replication	Sync	Async
Availability
Automatic failover / HA	✓	✓
Deployment
Deployment	-	Managed
Serverless / scale-to-zero	-	✓
Compatibility
Wire compatibility	MySQL protocol	Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs	✓	-
Licensing
Licence class	Copyleft	Proprietary
Data types
JSON / document support	✓	-
Geo / spatial	Native	-

Core

SQL model

MariaDBFull SQL

NeonFull SQL

Transactions

ACID transactions

MariaDBFull

NeonFull

Highest isolation level

MariaDB-

NeonSerializable

Consistency

MariaDBTunable

NeonStrong

Scale

Horizontal scale

MariaDBNatively distributed

NeonRead replicas

Replication

MariaDBSync

NeonAsync

Availability

Automatic failover / HA

MariaDB✓

Neon✓

Deployment

MariaDB-

NeonManaged

Serverless / scale-to-zero

MariaDB-

Neon✓

Compatibility

Wire compatibility

MariaDBMySQL protocol

NeonPostgres protocol

Extensibility

Extensions / plugins / UDFs

MariaDB✓

Neon-

Licensing

Licence class

MariaDBCopyleft

NeonProprietary

Data types

JSON / document support

MariaDB✓

Neon-

Geo / spatial

MariaDBNative

Neon-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

MariaDB

A widely deployed open source database that evolved from MySQL while maintaining compatibility, offering advanced SQL capabilities, native vector search, pluggable storage engines, and multi-primary clustering for production workloads.

Independently observed

Neon

Leader

A fully-managed PostgreSQL database that automatically scales compute resources, supports Git-like environment branching, and includes built-in user authentication without additional licensing.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

MariaDB

Open source

as of 2026-09-10verify ↗

Neon

Leader

from $0.00/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier with 100 CU-hours/mo. Usage-based: Launch plan $0.106/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo, Scale plan $0.222/CU-hr + $0.35/GB-mo. Typical $15–$701/mo.

FreeFree
- 100 projects
- 100 CU-hours monthly per project
- 0.5 GB storage per project
- Compute up to 2 CU (8 GB RAM)
- Unlimited team members
- +4 more
LaunchUsage-based, typical $15/mo (intermittent load, 1 GB)
- Compute autoscaling up to 16 CU
- Scale to zero when inactive
- Database storage with 7-day instant restore history
- 100 snapshots
- Monitoring with 3-day retention
- +4 more
ScaleUsage-based, typical $701/mo (high load, 100 GB)
- Compute autoscaling up to 56 CU
- Configurable scale-to-zero
- Database storage with up to 30-day instant restore history
- 100 snapshots
- SLAs included
- +8 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	MariaDB	Neon
WindowsPlatforms	✓	✗
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✗	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Windows

MariaDB✓

Neon✗

Linux

MariaDB✓

Neon✗

CLI

MariaDB✗

Neon✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

MariaDB✗

Neon✓

Self-hosted

MariaDB✓

Neon✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

MariaDB

17 total

MariaDB Connector/C
MariaDB Connector/Node.js
MariaDB Connector/ODBC
MariaDB Connector/J
MariaDB Connector/Python
MariaDB Connector/R2DBC
MariaDB Connector/C++
MySqlConnector for ADO.NET
ADO.NET Driver for MySQL
ODBC Driver for MySQL
JDBC Driver for MySQL
Node.js Driver for MySQL
C++ Driver for MySQL
C Driver for MySQL
C API for MySQL
PyMySQL
mysql-python

Independently observed

Neon

Leader

2 total

Datadog
OpenTelemetry

Independently observed

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