What is MariaDB?
Built by MySQL's creators. Freed from their limits.
MariaDB is an enterprise-grade open-source relational database – created by the original developers of MySQL and now trusted as the database backbone of some of the world’s largest financial institutions, telecoms, and technology companies.
Unlike proprietary databases, MariaDB gives organizations the performance and reliability they need without the vendor lock-in, inflated licensing, or limited flexibility. It supports the full spectrum of modern data workloads: transactional, analytical, semi-structured JSON, and AI-ready vector data – all in a single, unified platform.
MariaDB has been downloaded over one billion times and is the database powering banking, flight operations, 5G networks, prescription management, and much more – globally.
MariaDB × GridGain: The AI-Ready Operating Platform
In March 2026, MariaDB completed the acquisition of GridGain Systems – the pioneer of in-memory computing and the force behind Apache Ignite. This creates the industry’s first unified AI-Ready Operating Platform: combining enterprise-grade relational reliability with extreme-velocity in-memory compute.
The result is a single, high-velocity platform that eliminates infrastructure fragmentation – delivering the grounding layer that autonomous AI agents require to truly work at enterprise scale.
