MariaDB is a community developed, open source relational database management system. 

## Key Features

* Development was led by few of the original developers of MySQL
* It's an improved version of MySQL with numerous inbuilt powerful features,security, performance improvements compared to MySQL.
* High compatibility with MySQL and thus it has exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands with new features. 
* New storage engine, Aria
* MariaDB has been supported in Amazon RDS service and Microsoft Azure.
* Intended to remain free and open source software under GPL, BSD or LGPL licenses.
* Supports different programming languages and runs on different operating systems.




About MariaDB

Installation on MacOS, Linux and Windows

Introduction

Data Types

Keys

Constraints

Commands

DDL Commands

DML Commands

DCL Commands

TCL Commands

Joins

Indexes

Triggers

Views

Stored Procedures