Its similarity to MySQL, which was the dominant database in the early 2000s, has facilitated its adoption. The key differences between MariaDB and MySQL form the foundation of MariaDB's performance.

In the open source database space, he said, there is a big difference when it comes to intellectual property (IP) between MariaDB and MySQL, the open-source database of which MariaDB is a fork.

With the release of MariaDB 11.6, the MariaDB Foundation has announced the public preview of Vector search for the open-source fork of the MySQL engine. Database experts and open-source advocates ...