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MariaDB vs YugabyteDB

No leader: the top candidate YugabyteDB has only 0.18 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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MariaDB50
YugabyteDB53
Score
vioscaleAI score
MariaDB50 / 100low · 42%
YugabyteDB53 / 100low · 18%
Pricing
Free tier
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
MariaDBopen_source
YugabyteDBopen_source
Price level
MariaDBfree
YugabyteDBfree
Transparent
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
MariaDB17
YugabyteDB4
Security
Disclosure policy
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Iso27001
MariaDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Scorecard
MariaDB4.7
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
MariaDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
MariaDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
MariaDB0
YugabyteDB–
Github stars
MariaDB8,358
YugabyteDB–
Activity
Commits last 30d
MariaDB100
YugabyteDB–
Release
History
MariaDB20 items
YugabyteDB–
License
Spdx
MariaDBGPL-2.0
YugabyteDB–
Language
Primary
MariaDBC++
YugabyteDB–
Market
Availability
MariaDBAvailable worldwide
YugabyteDB–
Content
Faq
MariaDB7 items
YugabyteDB4 items

Capabilities

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

Core
SQL model
MariaDBFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
MariaDBFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
MariaDB-
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
MariaDBTunable
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
MariaDBNatively distributed
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
MariaDBSync
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
MariaDB-
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
MariaDB-
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
MariaDBMySQL protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
MariaDBCopyleft
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
MariaDBNative
YugabyteDB-

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

YugabyteDB

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability.

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 verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

  • Standard$125/vCPU/month
    • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
    • Cassandra API (YCQL)
    • Change Data Capture
    • Single-region fault tolerance
    • PostgreSQL extensions
    • +7 more
  • Professional$167/vCPU/month
    • All Standard features
    • Multi-region stretched clusters
    • Read Replicas
    • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
    • Performance Advisor
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Professional features
    • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
    • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Windows
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Linux
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
MariaDB✗
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
MariaDB✓
YugabyteDB✓

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

YugabyteDB

5 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
  • Debezium
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • PostgreSQL
Independently observed
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