23 engineers on Hacker News describe using MariaDB first-hand: 7 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I do run it in production, albeit only on a small scale. ... Personally, I think MariaDB keeps them honest”
endorse · production · jchw · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Makes me long for GTIDs from MySQL MariaDB Galera. They worked super well and we never looked back at my last company.”
endorse · production · TechIsCool · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ever since we migrated MariaDB to 10.6.12 we get at least 1 table corruption per day.”
regret · production · jonsnow_dba · 2023-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally like MySQL/MariaDB for some technical reasons.”
endorse · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the database get corrupted every few days. First we though it was hardware, so we replaced disks, then the entire machine.”
regret · production · takeda · 2020-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to MariaDB and it basically has everything.”
endorse · production · nsxwolf · 2019-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to MariaDB because it fixed a number of glaring query optimizer failings much sooner than MySQL. And we've stuck with MariaDB”
endorse · production · sjwright · 2018-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aria is one of the reasons we are using MariaDB in fact... The only real issues with MariaDB is lack of proper JSON and spatial support”
mixed · production · petre · 2018-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently upgraded from MySQL 5.1 -> MariaDB 5.5 with no issues what so ever. We have ~90 tables”
endorse · production · simonz05 · 2013-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Have not encountered any issues since switching to MariaDB over a year ago.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · dkoch · 2012-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I need to be using MariaDB since it's what we use in production, we can't switch DB tech at this stage of the project”
neutral · production · francislavoie · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Context: Mariadb 10.2. In this table we stored traffic statistics, aggregated by IP address and day.”
neutral · production · perlgeek · 2023-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“moved to MariaDB at the appropriate time (around when Debian switched over)”
neutral · production · Jedd · 2022-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only reason we haven't gone Postgres is because our codebase is extremely extensive and dependent on MySQL/Maria.”
neutral · production · selfhoster11 · 2022-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We currently use Galera with My/MariaDB/Percona and it's quite handy for HA-ish needs”
neutral · production · throw0101a · 2021-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only ever seen PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB/Oracle be deployed successfully as single instances in prod that are scaled vertically”
neutral · production · KronisLV · 2021-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our tests run against SQLite (I use Mariadb in prod).”
neutral · production · tarjei · 2020-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our Koa server connects to our MariaDB sql database via KnexJS & Objection.”
neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only change that I'd recommend considering, is we use partition by list, instead of range”
neutral · production · Shelnutt2 · 2017-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use MariaDB on an old project which used mySql but anything new is postgres.”
neutral · production · harel · 2016-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“see if it's something I'd roll out in production (Maria 10 system)”
neutral · production · mgkimsal · 2014-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use mariadb for storing everything persistently.”
neutral · production · mikegioia · 2013-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am running it in production with both MariaDB 5.5.x and MySQL 5.5.x.”
neutral · production · deweller · 2013-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?