MariaDB and PostgreSQL: A technical deepdive into how they differ

Online Event – 29 Oct 2025, 17:00 CET – Zoom link

Manoj Vakeel, Director Migrations and Services, MariaDB plc

Presentation

Join us for an in-depth exploration of two of the most widely adopted open-source databases — MariaDB and PostgreSQL. In this session, we’ll go beyond surface-level comparisons and dive into the architectural implementations that make each engine unique.

Speaker

Manoj Vakeel is a senior technical leader at MariaDB, driving customer success in database migration and application modernisation. Based in Bangalore, he helps enterprises worldwide move from legacy systems to open-source platforms.
He has previously led similar global migration practices at IBM and EDB, bringing over a decade of experience in guiding complex database transformation programs.