MariaDB Playground

Run MariaDB database queries straight from your browser! Practice, test, and benchmark your SQL queries in this playground equipped with a running MariaDB server hosted in the Ubuntu operating system.

Playground Features

• Complete MariaDB server up and ready to use
• Latest version of MariaDB
• Ubuntu for Host Operating System

What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is a popular open-source RDBMS (relational database management system) that is a community-developed fork of MySQL. It was created by the original developers of MySQL to ensure it remains free and open-source, especially after MySQL was acquired by Oracle. MariaDB maintains high compatibility with MySQL, meaning most applications and scripts written for MySQL can run seamlessly with MariaDB.

It allows users to interact with databases through SQL(Structured Query Language). MariaDB has a strong history, evolving from MySQL's roots, and has gained significant traction as a robust and reliable database system. It's used by many prominent organizations and is often seen as a direct, enhanced replacement for MySQL in various tech stacks.

In modern software development, MariaDB is frequently used as part of similar tech stacks to MySQL, such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP). It's known for being performant, easy to manage, and highly compatible.

MariaDB is supported by most popular programming languages today, including Python, PHP, and Go, among others. It also supports widely-used operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. MariaDB is commonly deployed as the backend for modern web applications, for data warehousing, and to handle transactional data.

MariaDB Features

Open-source: As a community-driven project, anyone can inspect, enhance, and modify its source code. This transparency provides assurance and security, as the underlying application is continuously reviewed by a wide community.

High Compatibility with MySQL: MariaDB is designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, meaning existing MySQL applications can often switch to MariaDB with minimal or no changes. This makes migration straightforward.

Enhanced Performance: MariaDB often includes performance improvements and optimizations over MySQL, especially for certain workloads, making it a fast and efficient choice for many applications.

Ability to Scale: MariaDB is capable of supporting a wide range of data sizes, from small-scale projects to enterprise-level applications with a large number of databases, tables, and millions of individual entries.

Comprehensive support for Data Types: MariaDB offers extensive support for a variety of data types, catering to the diverse needs of modern software engineering.

Character Encoding: MariaDB provides broad support for different character sets, including the Unicode character set and many others, ensuring global data handling capabilities.

Secure: MariaDB offers robust security features, including strong authentication mechanisms and Access Control Lists (ACLs). These ACLs allow for granular control over database resources, defining precisely what actions individual users are permitted to perform (e.g., creating, deleting, or reading specific databases and tables).