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MariaDB for the Public Sector
Free the budget trapped in legacy systems. MariaDB puts a real-time layer in front of what you run, then moves you to an open foundation at your own pace.
Available through Carahsoft on GSA, SEWP V, TX DIR, CMAS, NASPO and SLSA (Canada):
Civilian agencies
Healthcare
Nonprofits
State and local education
Global government agencies
Free your trapped budget
Most agency IT money keeps old systems running, not new services. Data gravity makes it worse by pulling workloads toward the biggest and most expensive store.
Fund services, not licenses
Data gravity drags workloads toward the largest store, driving up costs for licenses, mainframe MIPS, egress and delay. MariaDB puts a real-time layer in front of your existing systems, allowing modernization to begin without replacing anything and progress to an open foundation at your pace.
Accelerate what you run today
MariaDB GridGain sits in front of your existing databases, mainframe-backed applications and data streams. Reads come from memory, citizens and staff stop waiting, and load drops on your costliest systems. Nothing behind the layer needs to be replaced.
Consolidate on an open foundation
When you are ready, move workloads off Oracle and other proprietary databases to a curated open source database with a DISA-approved STIG. Oracle compatibility mode and migration tooling reduce the amount of code that has to be rewritten, while eliminating per-core fees.
See what is happening now
Run reporting, oversight and models against live operational data instead of last night’s extract. MariaDB Exa, powered by Exasol, is available as an add-on to the MariaDB Enterprise Platform.
Verify before money moves
With the working set in memory and rules running alongside it, benefits and payment systems can check eligibility, identity and risk inside the authorization window, helping catch improper payments before disbursement instead of chasing them afterward.
Capabilities
Platform capabilities for agencies
Transaction processing at scale
Run benefits, licensing, records, case management and student systems on MariaDB Enterprise Server, with ACID guarantees and support for high-concurrency workloads.
Continuous availability across sites
MaxScale promotes a replica and replays transactions, Enterprise Galera Cluster keeps every node writable, and Raft Cluster commits transactions on a majority of nodes across sites.
Decisions in the moment
MariaDB GridGain holds the working set in memory and runs rules alongside it, so eligibility and fraud decisions are made while the transaction is open.
Works with what you use
GridGain sits in front of MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop and Kafka, providing access through SQL, JDBC, ODBC and REST.
Analytics on current data
MariaDB Exa runs reports and models against live operational data streamed from Enterprise Server, so oversight reflects what is currently happening.
Why MariaDB
Why agencies choose MariaDB
Adoption without disruption
Start with one application. Your systems of record stay exactly where they are, and nothing behind the layer has to be replaced.
Open source, without lock-in
Enterprise Server is built on an open foundation, with hardened builds, CVE response and production support from MariaDB, not just the community.
Deploy anywhere, identically
Public cloud, private cloud, your own cloud account, on premises or at the edge, wherever policy and data residency rules require you to run.
Lower licensing exposure
Open source licensing removes the per-core fees that make growth expensive, and one platform replaces products licensed separately for database, cache and analytics.
Support that knows your agency
U.S.-based support with cleared personnel, plus a dedicated Technical Account Manager who knows your environment, architecture and priorities.
Compliance
Built for public sector compliance
Independently audited, with encryption, access control and audit logging to support HIPAA obligations, plus configurable data residency controls.
DISA-approved STIG
SOC 2 Type II
FIPS 140-3 mode on NIST-validated modules
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Institute for Health Metrics
The institute scaled storage for global health data rapidly, using open source columnar analytics to hold and query population health measurement worldwide.
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Frequently asked questions
One platform for agency workloads: MariaDB Enterprise Server for transactions and records, MariaDB GridGain for in-memory speed and real-time decisions, and MariaDB Exa for analytics on live data.
MariaDB Enterprise Platform removes proprietary per-core fees, so scaling can cost less. Oracle compatibility mode limits rewriting, and offloading reads can lower mainframe MIPS consumption.
Yes. An in-memory layer sits in front of the mainframe and absorbs read traffic, reducing MIPS consumption while giving modern services real-time access. The mainframe remains the system of record.
No. GridGain sits between your applications or data streams and your existing databases, allowing you to accelerate existing data applications.
Data gravity is the tendency of a large store to pull workloads toward it. For agencies, it means moving data to a central platform before it can be used, adding egress cost, duplication and delays.
GridGain processes data where it lives and serves repeated reads from memory. Less data moves, and less load lands on costly systems. That can defer license and MIPS growth, which we can measure in a 30-day evaluation.
Enterprise Server has a DISA-approved STIG for hardening, with the encryption, access control and audit logging healthcare organizations rely on. HIPAA compliance remains the covered entity's responsibility.
MariaDB GridGain provides encryption between nodes, clients and REST and at rest, role-based access control with support for LDAP authentication and OpenID Connect SSO.
MariaDB Exa is an in-memory analytics engine, powered by Exasol, that runs alongside MariaDB Enterprise Server so you can analyze live operational data without moving it to a separate warehouse.
Production and regulated workloads should run on MariaDB Enterprise Server, which provides hardened binaries, five years of support, advanced backup, high availability, auditing and the version covered by the STIG.
FedRAMP is required for cloud services used by executive branch agencies, not just defense agencies. It does not apply to MariaDB deployments hosted and operated by the agency itself. FedRAMP authorization for MariaDB Cloud is targeted for 2027.