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MariaDB.org
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MariaDB.org is the company blog at mariadb.org, writing about data and programming. Since 2010, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 70 times, most often “ Will MariaDB be the Next MySQL?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link MariaDB.org as the home of the MariaDB MySQL fork, citing its about, donate, contribution-statistics and security best-practices pages, mostly as bare links or pointers to the project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-06-28
- Will MariaDB be the Next MySQL?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-10-08
- MariaDB now has a DuckDB storage engine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-09
- MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL: Understanding the Architectural Differences That Matter3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-05
- From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-05
- The Operational Cost of Vacuuming in PostgreSQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-09
- Performance Degradation from Mutex in Hotpath of Mature Database Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-30
- /about/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-15
- Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum level sponsor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-16
- A positive new chapter for MariaDB Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
What Hacker News says?
MariaDB - https://mariadb.org/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database”Submitted Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum level sponsor as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThis was a great overview and write-up. Anyone know why they are using MySQL over MariaDB[1]? 1. https://mariadb.org/
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on “Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL”Submitted Who are you? The history of MySQL and MariaDB authentication protocols (2017) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAgreed, fuck 'em (not that you were saying that, but I am). My point was I want something like this for projects and bugs I care about in general. I don't care about this bug, but can relate to the cake-maker. To anyone not yet familiar, Maria is a really exciting fork of MySQL - https://mariadb.org/
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on “An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake”Submitted MariaDB 11.8 LTS Released as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://mariadb.org
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on “Why we're ending support for MySQL”Submitted MariaDB 10.3 Stable Release Notes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMariaDB Server is guaranteed to remain open source. It will also always be available to the community. The MariaDB Foundation exists to support continuity and open collaboration in the MariaDB ecosystem, regardless of the actions of any company. https://mariadb.org/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation”Submitted MariaDB Server Vector Preview as a story · 5 points
HN discussionUsing Spider storage engine in Mariadb it is possible to do this by having vertical partitions using different partition by clauses [1]. Essentially you will create sub tables with the partition by clauses, then use a spider table to reference these subtables. Spider than intelligently will select the partition to use based on the query and where clause. The downside of this is it will require storage of the data mu…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Merging_patches_into_MariaDB_10.4.pdf
on “PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements”Submitted MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNah, postgres is overhyped, MariaDB is enough and recently: < https://mariadb.org/mariadb-vs-postgresql-understanding-the-... >
Comment linking /mariadb-vs-postgresql-understanding-the-architectural-differences-that-matter/
on “What the hell have you built”Submitted MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL: Understanding the Architectural Differences That Matter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLooking at the specs for MariaDB, I can see why our last client dropped MySQL for the front end and went with it. The XtraDB engine, basically a fork of InnoDB with patches, is actually very nice. We've had to do almost no modifications to the data structure when moving from InnoDB for some DBs (that we're not using Postgres for). Fun fact: XtraDB is also the default in Percona http://www.percona.com (No, I don't wo…
Comment linking /docs
on “Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories”Submitted MariaDB plc – looking forward to business as usual as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck out this GPLv2 fork / alternative mentioned: http://mariadb.org
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on “RIP Open Source MySQL”Submitted Machine Learning straight through SQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOfficial announcement: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-maria... MariaDB looks likely to inherit a big slice, possibly even a majority, of MySQL's user base over time. It's not just because MariaDB is as good as any of the "official" editions of MySQL offered by Oracle, but because it has only a single code base under a single Free license (as opposed to differently licensed "open source" and "…
Comment linking /en/foundation/
on “Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB”Submitted Performance Degradation from Mutex in Hotpath of Mature Database Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs mentioned in the comments see MariaDB ( http://mariadb.org/ ), an open source fork of MySQL from before the Oracle acquisition. Like Hudson, MySQL will live on.
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on “Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL”Submitted When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Busy Year for MariaDB Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>No open source company has ever forked code from an existing product, started a competing business, and stolen business away from the originator. Your main point stands, but one counter-example perhaps worth mentioning is MariaDB (the Enterprise version[1], not just the free version[2]). Oracle's treatment of MySQL was enough to force a reaction from the community to fork and continue to build a drop-in replacement…
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on “Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia”Submitted From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're sick of seeing that message, MariaDB is a non-Oracle fork of MySQL, and I hear good things about it. http://mariadb.org/
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on “Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people”Submitted MariaDB now has a DuckDB storage engine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRemember there is also MariaDB, quote from they webpage: MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. MariaDB is built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of Free and open source software developers. In addition to the core functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including alternate storage eng…
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on “Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake”Submitted DuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's curious to see news about many database products that have come out only recently, since in my personal experience I've seen some companies and their products just evaporate (for example, Clusterpoint a number of years back). Of course, if there's a sufficient amount of hype/mindshare from the industry towards a certain technology, it feels like the critical mass of attention might perhaps be there to sustain t…
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on “Database Review 2021”Submitted Do they even test this? as a story · 2 points
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