MARIADB ENTERPRISE SERVER
FREEDOM TO GO ANYWHERE
Any workload. Any scale.
MariaDB Platform is the complete enterprise open source database solution. It has the versatility to support transactional, analytical and hybrid workloads as well as relational, JSON and hybrid data models. And it has the scalability to grow from standalone databases and data warehouses to fully distributed SQL for executing millions of transactions per second and performing interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows.
Why MariaDB?
Break free from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases and reinvest in what matters most, developing innovative applications and services as fast as possible. Experience the same benefits as customers like Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens – industry leaders who trust MariaDB to deliver unmatched operational agility, provide enterprise reliability and drive collaborative innovation.
Components
MariaDB Enterprise Server
MariaDB Enterprise Server is an enhanced, hardened and secured version of MariaDB built to meet the most challenging reliability, stability, security and scalability requirements of business-critical, mission-critical applications.
MariaDB MaxScale
MariaDB MaxScale adds advanced data protection with a database firewall and dynamic data masking, high availability with dynamic query routing and automatic failover and query result caching with Redis integration.
MariaDB ColumnStore
MariaDB ColumnStore adds interactive, ad hoc analytics at scale with columnar storage and massively parallel processing, transforming MariaDB Enterprise Server into a data warehouse or hybrid database.
MariaDB Xpand
MariaDB Xpand adds elasticity and massive scalability on premises or in the cloud with fully distributed data and transaction processing, turning MariaDB Enterprise Server into a distributed SQL database when needed.
MariaDB Enterprise Server
Enterprise Audit
Collect detailed connection information and create granular audit rules and templates using JSON documents stored in system tables.
Enterprise Backup
Take backups on large databases without blocking writes and interrupting applications, or blocking important schema changes.
Enterprise Cluster
Deploy secure multi-writer clusters with encrypted transaction buffers and default configurations optimized for production.
Enterprise Federation
Consolidate data access by using MariaDB Enterprise Server to access tables in other databases using standard ODBC connections.
Hashicorp Vault
Manage encryption keys outside of the database for maximum security and easier, more sophisticated key management.
MariaDB MaxScale
MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced database proxy for MariaDB Enterprise Server, providing it with enterprise
high availability, scalability, security and integration services while at the same time abstracting away the
underlying database infrastructure to simplify application development and database administration.
High Availability
MaxScale includes several high availability features such as automatic failover, transaction replay, connection migration, session restore and more. With these powerful features, application users won’t see service interruptions if an infrastructure failure happens.
Integration
Radis can be used to cache query results to improve performance while Kafka can be used to publish data changes to external systems.
Security
MaxScale includes TLS encryption and query throttling to limit the maximum query frequency of a database session. This feature prevents rogue sessions (client-side errors) and DDoS attacks.
Scalability
Intelligent query routing and adaptive load balancing simplify application development and improve query performance.
Column Store
MariaDB ColumnStore extends MariaDB Enterprise Server with distributed, columnar storage and a massively parallel processing (MPP) shared nothing architecture, transforming it into a standalone or distributed data warehouse for ad hoc SQL queries and advanced analytics without the need to create indexes.
Columnar
Data is stored in a columnar format for fast analytics and with up to 90% compression, reducing disk I/O and size of data on disk.
Distributed
Data can be distributed across multiple database instances and queried in parallel to increase query performance and support massive datasets.
Cloud-Native
Data can be stored on Amazon S3 compatible object storage, on premises or in the cloud, to benefit from low-cost, unlimited storage.See What's New in ColumnStore
Distributed tables and indexes
Xpand distributes both table data and primary/secondary indexes across all database instances to maximize query parallelization.
Distributed Transactions
Xpand uses distributed transactions with parallel writes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and consensus to enforce strong consistency.
Elastic Scaling on Demand
MariaDB Enterprise Server instances with Xpand can be added or removed on demand to scale out or scale in as workloads change.
MariaDB Capabilities
Scalability
MariaDB Platform scales up with more cores, memory and storage and scales out with more database instances – making it easy to get started with a standalone instance, run on a bigger server, add replicas to scale reads and finally, to scale out reads, writes and storage with hundreds of instances and distributed SQL.
Sharding
Spread tables partitions across multiple database instances to scale out reads, writes and storage transparently to applications
Partitioning
Partitioning large tables by range, list or hash to improve query and index performance, and use multiple disks/different disks per partition
Parallel query
Use multiple threads to execute aggregates, sorts, joins and more on multiple partitions at the same time scale up linearly with cores.
Read Replicas
Add read replicas using asynchronous and semi-sync replication, or use MaxScale as replication server for hundreds.
Compression
Reduce the size of data on disk by 33-66% using InnoDB or MyRocks table compression, or compress only specific columns.
Distributed SQL
MariaDB Platform supports distributed SQL with the Xpand storage engine, easily transforming a replicated or clustered database into a fully distributed database capable of scaling out to execute millions of transactions per second without sacrificing latency or standard SQL (e.g., joins). Alternatively, use both replicated and distributed tables by using Xpand for tables with lots of data and/or queries, and InnoDB or MyRocks for tables with much less.
High Availability
MariaDB Platform includes two options to meet enterprise high availability requirements: replication with automatic failover, and multi-master clustering using synchronous replication and a shared-nothing architecture.
Automatic Failover
MariaDB MaxScale provides MariaDB Platform with automatic failover, promoting an up-to-date replica if the primary becomes unreachable or unresponsive, and rerouting application queries to the new primary.
Multi-Master Clustering
MariaDB Enterprise Cluster provides MariaDB Platform with synchronous, multi-master clustering for mission-critical applications requiring continuous availability and strong consistency through infrastructure failures.
Zero-Interruption Failover
While most databases can meet standard high availability requirements with automatic failover and/or multi-master clustering, MariaDB Platform is the only database with advanced features comparable to Oracle Application Continuity. Together, they hide infrastructure and database failures from applications, resulting in zero-interruption failover.
Connection Migration
MaxScale migrates backend database connections after performing an automatic failover, applications don't have to create new connections because of a failover.
Session Restore
MaxScale restores database sessions on a newly promoted primary after it has performed an automatic failover, applications don't have to restore sessions because of a failover.
Transaction Replay
MaxScale replays in-flight transactions after performing an automatic failover so they can continue, applications don't have to retry transactions because of a failover
Disaster recovery
MariaDB Platform includes a number of tools and features for implementing comprehensive disaster recovery plans, including non-blocking backups and point-in-time restore with MariaDB Enterprise Backup to online point-in-time rollback with MariaDB Flashback. In addition, delayed replicas (e.g., 1 hour, 12 hour and 1 day) can be used as part of an advanced strategy to prevent accidental or malicious data loss/corruption from reaching backups.
Enterprise Backup
Perform online, non-blocking backups (full or incremental), create cumulative backups and use them to restore databases to a specific point in time with MariaDB Enterprise Backup.
Flashback
Undo the most recent transactions to recover from malicious or accidental data loss/corruption faster, and without incurring downtime, by using MariaDB Flashback to “rewind the database.”
Delayed replicas
With delayed replication, replicas can be staggered behind the primary in order to prevent data loss/corruption from reaching backups and recover data without needing a restore.
Security
MariaDB Platform goes above and beyond standard security features such as roles and auditing, with advanced data protection and security layers such as complete, end-to-end encryption, a powerful database firewall to stop intruders and malicious attacks and dynamic data masking/obfuscation to protect customer data and prevent data breaches.
Encryption
Encrypt all data motion with secure connections(TLS), and at rest, including logs, with transparent data encryption (TDE).
Dynamic data masking
Prevent sensitive and personally identifiable information from being exposed by masking query results before they are returned.
Database firewall
Protect data from malicious attackers by blocking queries based on their type, syntax, columns, time of day, user and more.
Oracle Database Compatibility
MariaDB Platform is the only database solution with a 100% open source implementation of Oracle PL/SQL, making it easy for enterprises to migrate from Oracle Database without having to rewrite stored procedures, modify schemas and change application code. MariaDB customers have imported hundreds of thousands of lines of PL/SQL.
Stored procedures (PL/SQL)
MariaDB Platform supports standard Oracle Database packages and procedures written in PL/SQL, including cursors, loops, variables, exceptions and functions such as CAST, LENGTH and SUBSTR.
Data Types and Sequences
MariaDB Platform supports standard Oracle Database data types such as VARCHAR2, NUMBER, DATE, RAW, BLOB and CLOB as well as sequences using Oracle Database syntax (e.g., NEXTVAL and CURRVAL).
JSON
MariaDB Platform supports hybrid relational/JSON data models, allowing developers to extend relational data models with JSON documents and query them with standard SQL for faster development, or to query relational data as JSON documents, while at the same time ensuring DBAs can continue to enforce data integrity and correctness.
Schema flexibility
Add JSON columns to extend existing tables to provide developers with greater flexibility – speed up app development by allowing the data model to evolve on demand rather than requiring schema changes up front.
Standard SQL
Query and index JSON documents with standard SQL using a comprehensive set of JSON functions to read/write JSON documents, fields, array and objects – or return relational data as JSON documents.