Features of MariaDB

MariaDB provides the same features of MySQL with some extensions. It is relatively new and advance.

Following is a list of features of MariaDB:

MariaDB is licenced under GPL, LGPL, or BSD.
MariaDB includes a wide selection of storage engines, including high-performance storage engines, for working with other RDBMS data sources.
MariaDB uses a standard and popular querying language.
MariaDB runs on a number of operating systems and supports a wide variety of programming languages.
MariaDB offers support for PHP, one of the most popular web development languages.
MariaDB offers Galera cluster technology.
MariaDB also offers many operations and commands unavailable in MySQL, and eliminates/replaces features impacting performance negatively.

MariaDB Versions

Version	Original Release Date	Latest Version	Release Date	Status
5.1	2009-10-29[12]	5.1.67	2013-01-30[13]	Stable
5.2	2010-04-10[14]	5.2.14	2013-01-30[15]	Stable
5.3	2011-07-26[16]	5.3.12	2013-01-30[17]	Stable
5.5	2012-02-25[18]	5.5.56	2017-05-03[19]	Stable
10.0	2012-11-12[20]	10.0.31	2017-05-23[21]	Stable
10.1	2014-06-30[22]	10.1.24	2017-05-31[23]	Stable
10.2	2016-04-18[24]	10.2.6	2017-05-23[25]	Stable
10.3	2017-04-16[26]	10.3.0	2017-04-16[27]	Alpha