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MariaDB is a community-driven, MySQL fork using the XtraDB storage engine, led by MySQL founder Michael Widenius and open-sourced under the GPL v2.0 license.
Compared to MySQL, MariaDB’s advantages include:
- Maria storage engine
- PBXT storage engine
- XtraDB storage engine
- FederatedX storage engine
- Faster replication query processing
- Thread pool
- Fewer warnings and bugs
- Faster performance
- More extensions (More index parts, new startup options etc)
- Better feature testing
- Table elimination
- Extended statistics for slow query log
- Support for Unicode collation