developed by Michael "Monty" Widenius

on January 16, 2008.

 ABOUT MARIADB

MariaDB is an open source relational database for companies of any size.

It developed by the MariaDB Corporation AB and the MariaDB Foundation.

It can be written in C, C++, Perl and Bash and applicable in some operating

systems

such as Linux, Windows and macOS.

The initial release of MariaDB was on October 29, 2009(9 years ago).

The stable release was on September 11, 2019.

FEATURES OF MARIADB

• Access Controls/Permissions

• Multiple Programming Languages Supported

• Performance Analysis

• Backup and Recovery

• Data Replication
3 Software Pricing Models:
RELEVANT
• Subscription/Software-As-A-
Service
-Under this software pricing
model, the software is accessed over
the Internet, as opposed to installed
on-premises. The payment is made
either on a per user basis or
subscription basis. Ideally, customers
are required to pay a recurring monthly
fee until a specific period for using the
software. Subscription pricing model is
more common with Software-as-a-
Service (SaaS) apps.
NOT RELEVANT
• Perpetual license
- A common pricing model for on-
premise applications, perpetual license
requires a customer to pay an upfront sum
to own the software or other intellectual
property on-premises for a fixed term.
• Commercial open source
- The customer can acquire the
software free of cost without having to incur
any upfront license fee. As a customer,
you’re solely responsible for the ongoing
maintenance, upgrading, customization, and
troubleshooting of the application to meet
your specific needs. You are on your own
for providing end-user support, since you
are not locked in with a vendor-supplied
software solution.
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Cost of customization
In order to calculate the cost of customization you can
use the following estimates:

• Minimal customization - integrate with 1-2 systems:

$2,500
• Standard customization - integrate with 3-5 systems:
$10,000
• Fully customized system - integrate with more than 5
systems: $25,000
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Cost of data migration

As a rule of thumb the cost of data migration depends
on how many records you want to migrate. Records can
include number of Customers, invoices, financial
transactions, products, versions, etc.
Here is a list you can use as a rule of thumb:
• 1,000 records: $500
• 10,000 records: $2,500
• 100,000 records: $10,000s
• 1,000,000+ records: $25,000
Cost of training

In order to calculate the cost of training you can use

the following estimates:

• 1-2 Training Sessions: $500

• 3-4 Training Sessions: $1,500
• 5-7 Training Sessions: $2,500
• 8-10 Training Sessions: $5,000
 MariaDB/Storage Engines

• ARIA
-The Aria storage engine is compiled in by default in MariaDB 5.1 and
it is required to be 'in use' when mysql is started.
-Additionally, internal on-disk tables are in the Aria table format
instead of the table format. This should speed up some GROUP BY and
DISTINCT queries because Aria has better caching. The inclusion of Aria is
one of the differences between MariaDB 5.1 and MySQL 5.1.
• PBXT
-The PBXT storage engine is included in the MariaDB source and
binaries by default.
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• XtraDB
-XtraDB is a fork of InnoDB created and maintained by Percona.
-It is completely compatible with InnoDB. The InnoDB codebase is
constantly updated when new InnoDB versions are released. Percona
applies to it several patches, which fix known bugs and add new features.
-In most builds, InnoDB is disabled and XtraDB is instead installed
under the name InnoDB. This means that if you specify InnoDB you actually
get XtraDB.
• FederatedX
-FederatedX is based off of the Federated Storage Engine, which is
no longer maintained. It is an attempt to move the Federated Storage
Engine forward to fix bugs, add new features and develop new concepts that
are easier to achieve as a pluggable storage engine.
Version Original release date Latest version Release date Status End of Life

5.1 29 October 2009; 9 years ago 5.1.67 2013-01-30 Stable (GA) Feb 2015

5.2 10 April 2010; 9 years ago 5.2.14 2013-01-30 Stable (GA) Nov 2015

5.3 26 July 2011; 8 years ago 5.3.12 2013-01-30 Stable (GA) Mar 2017

5.5 25 February 2012; 7 years ago 5.5.65 2019-07-31 Stable (GA) Apr 2020

10.0 12 November 2012; 6 years ago 10.0.38 2019-01-31 Stable (GA) Mar 2019

10.1 30 June 2014; 5 years ago 10.1.41 2019-07-31 Stable (GA) Oct 2020

10.2 18 April 2016; 3 years ago 10.2.27 2019-09-11 Stable (GA) May 2022

10.3 16 April 2017; 2 years ago 10.3.18 2019-09-11 Stable (GA) May 2023

9 November 2018; 11 months

10.4 10.4.8 2019-09-11 Stable (GA) Jun 2024
ago

5 years after stable

10.5 Unreleased -- ? Development
release