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MariaDB for Retail
Move from legacy database silos to a unified, AI-ready platform for real-time inventory, personalized ecommerce and seamless point-of-sale transactions.
Modernize retail operations and AI
Retailers choose MariaDB to modernize legacy apps and handle massive holiday spikes. Blend operational RDBMS with real-time analytics for instant insights into buyer behavior and logistics.
Real-time decision making
Execute HTAP to power dynamic pricing and instant fraud detection without impacting operational POS performance.
Accelerated application performance
Ensure blazing-fast checkouts and high availability with distributed caching during peak shopping events.
GenAI applications
Utilize native Vector Search and AI Agent Memory to build interactive shopping assistants and personalized recommendations.
Capabilities
MariaDB features for retail
Clustering & high-availability
Process millions of transactions across global store regions with high concurrency and ACID compliance for point-of-sale and scalable ecommerce.
AI RAG & vector search
Ground generative AI in your live product catalog data to provide customers with highly accurate, context-aware shopping assistants
Real-time analytics
Leverage GPU-accelerated analytics to gain real-time visibility into inventory levels, supply chain disruptions and emerging buyer trends.
Why MariaDB
Why retailers choose MariaDB
Peak season scalability
Dynamically scale resources to handle massive concurrency, ensuring blazing-fast ecommerce performance under extreme pressure.
Unmatched price-performance
Deliver enterprise-grade transaction speeds at a fraction of the cost of legacy proprietary databases.
Continuous uptime
Never lose a sale to downtime. MariaDB ensures resilient, always-on operations during your busiest seasons like Black Friday.
Industry regulations
Built for retail compliance
We’ve got you covered on certifications required to process payments and protect shopper data securely.
GDPR
CCPA
SOC 2
ISO 27001
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Frequently asked questions
MariaDB utilizes operational RDBMS clustering and distributed caching to ensure accelerated application performance and zero downtime during massive traffic spikes like Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
Yes. MariaDB incorporates AI RAG, native Vector Search, and AI Agent Memory to ground language models in your live product catalog, enabling hyper-personalized customer experiences.
Absolutely. Through Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing (HTAP), MariaDB lets you analyze operational data instantly, ensuring real-time visibility into inventory and supply chain operations.
It depends on what you’re moving from. Apps built on MySQL usually move over with few changes. Oracle-based apps take more work, but MariaDB’s Oracle compatibility mode supports much of PL/SQL, which cuts down on rewrites. Our team can assess your current setup and give you a realistic estimate before you commit.
MariaDB’s end-to-end encryption and enterprise-grade security features enable PCI DSS compliant deployments and help organizations meet GDPR requirements for protecting transaction data.
It helps map complex relationships between customers, products and purchasing habits. This enables retailers to build sophisticated recommendation engines and improve cross-selling opportunities.