MariaDB is a Finland-based software company developing scalable open-source database management systems. They provide community-driven data management capabilities that enable businesses to grow their database infrastructure securely while deploying mission-critical applications.

The MariaDB platform supports transactional, analytical and hybrid workloads, as well as relational, JSON and hybrid data models. They have the scalability to grow from stand-alone databases and data warehouses to fully distributed SQL for executing millions of transactions per second and performing interactive, ad-hoc analytics across billions of datapoints.

With their ‘SkySQL’ Database-as-a-Service offering, the company also offers the full MariaDB Platform functionalities in the cloud.