MariaDB has a strong community and body of tools built around it.

Clustering is built in, as are advanced SQL standard features such as temporal tables.

MariaDB contains numerous storage engines, from the general-use InnoDB storage engine, to Spider for sharding, RocksDB for high compression, CONNECT for accessing multiple, diverse formats, including NoSQL data and ColumnStore for columnar data.

You can download MariaDB Server from our website. You can also read more about how to use MariaDB Server from one of the resources below:

• Introduction to relational databases
• A 10-minute MariaDB primer
• List of SQL statements
• Useful MariaDB queries

The primary place for MariaDB specific documentation is the MariaDB Knowledge Base.

You may also be interested in the following topic:

• Migrating to MariaDB from PostgreSQL

First, check that the bug isn't already filed in the MariaDB bugs database. or the MySQL bugs database. For the MariaDB bugs database, use JIRA search to check if a report you are going to submit already exists.

MariaDB Server has historically relied on the community for feedback and to supplement the in-house QA process. The easiest way to contribute to MariaDB Server is to try out our development releases. Offer us feedback as soon as possible so we can spot bugs early and improve quickly. Our roadmap and bugs database is hosted at jira.mariadb.org. All bug reports get attention and help keep MariaDB Server a robust, reliable and performant database. Feature requests are also welcome.

• File a bug or feature request
• Enable the Feedback Plugin

MariaDB Server and related tools are tested thoroughly within our buildbot infrastructure. A complete testing system is necessary for a project to continue.
buildbot.mariadb.org has made it easy to contribute computing resources to our system.

• Contribute computing resources to buildbot