Why MariaDB
Unified. Agentic. Open. Accountable.
Run your most critical applications and agents on one database platform, with less complexity, lower cost and a company that stands behind it.
3B+
Downloads worldwide
800+
Enterprises running MariaDB in production
90%
Potential savings vs. proprietary
Every enterprise is racing to put AI agents into production, often on infrastructure built for a different era. MariaDB takes a different approach. Run your apps, analytics and agents on the same live data, on one open database platform, with one vendor accountable for all of it.
Unified
Run every workload on one foundation
Built outward from a proven transactional core, so every workload inherits the reliability your business already runs on.
Every system you stitch together for transactions, analytics and AI is another seam that can break. MariaDB runs them all on one foundation, with no sync jobs to maintain and one vendor that owns the whole path.
Agentic
Agents that work from live data
Sub-millisecond performance on the same live data your business runs on.
Agents fire thousands of small queries, and they won’t sit around waiting for slow or stale answers. MariaDB saw this shift coming more than two years ago and has been building for it ever since. AI Retrieval grounds agents in your documents and operational data, Agent Memory lets them pick up where they left off, and Semantic Cache cuts response times and token costs.
Open
Run anywhere and keep control
Full control over performance, scale, cost and where your data lives, wherever you run it.
The platform you choose today decides how much freedom you have tomorrow. MariaDB Enterprise Platform is built on an open source core and runs the same wherever you need it, on premises or in public, private and hybrid cloud. You choose the environment and the jurisdiction and connect the tools you already use. A proprietary or cloud vendor can’t promise you won’t get locked in. MariaDB can, because the core is open.
Lower Total Cost
Moving your data is expensive. Lower your overhead cost by 90%.
Eliminate Vendor Lock-in
Fast reasoning on your same data without exporting it..
Data Sovereignty
Ensure security and compliance —control where your data goes.
Deploy Anywhere
On-prem, in the cloud, or BYOA MariaDB works in any environment.
Accountable
Open source with someone accountable
Open code you can see, with a vendor that stands behind every release.
Open source without a clear owner leaves you to close the gaps yourself. MariaDB curates what ships, with verified contributors, vetted releases and hardened builds, and a community keeps the code honest. If you need help, MariaDB’s own engineers answer. You get the openness of community and the accountability of a vendor, without the lock-in.
Support and SLAs
Expert help tailored to your business needs, for every stage of the process
15 min
First response to critical issues on Premium
Unlimited
Tickets and technical contacts
24×7
Critical issue coverage from MariaDB’s own engineers
Customer stories
Enterprises like yours run on MariaDB
How the largest bank in Southeast Asia moved its mission-critical banking applications to MariaDB.
$4.1m
net savings over 5 years
54%
of banking apps migrated to MariaDB
How one of Europe’s largest telecom providers powers public Wi-Fi with MariaDB
30M+
users served
85%
reduction in latency
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FAQ
Questions enterprise buyers ask us
Anywhere you need it. MariaDB Enterprise Platform runs as a managed cloud service or self-managed on your own infrastructure, on premises or in any cloud, and it’s the same product either way.
Yes. The MariaDB Server core ships under the GPLv2 license, with code you can see and a community that keeps it honest. MariaDB curates and stands behind the enterprise releases built on that core.
Standard and Premium support both include unlimited tickets and technical contacts, with 24x7 coverage for critical issues. On Premium, first response to critical issues comes in as little as 15 minutes.
One reliable, real-time foundation.
Open enough to trust, curated enough to run your business on, built for the agents you’re deploying now and the ones you haven’t built yet. MariaDB is the only database you need to run your agentic enterprise.
