MariaDB
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. (by MariaDB)
Firebird
FB/Java plugin for Firebird (by FirebirdSQL)
| MariaDB | Firebird | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | - | |
| 6,803 | 12 | |
| 3.0% | - | |
| 9.9 | 2.6 | |
| 5 days ago | about 2 years ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MariaDB
Posts with mentions or reviews of MariaDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-03.
- MariaDB 11.4 on OpenBSD 7.8: Install
Installing MariaDB/MySQL system tables in '/var/mysql' ... OK Two all-privilege accounts were created. One is root@localhost, it has no password, but you need to be system 'root' user to connect. Use, for example, sudo mariadb The second is _mysql@localhost, it has no password either, but you need to be the system '_mysql' user to connect. After connecting you can set the password, if you would need to be able to connect as any of these users with a password and without sudo See the MariaDB Knowledgebase at https://mariadb.com/kb You can start the MariaDB daemon with: /etc/rc.d/mysqld start Please report any problems at https://mariadb.org/jira The latest information about MariaDB is available at https://mariadb.org/. Consider joining MariaDB's strong and vibrant community: https://mariadb.org/get-involved/
- MariaDB star chasing: "Please help get to 10k stars"
- Integrating MongoDB into Laravel with Filament
Laravel is one of the best PHP frameworks I ever tried in my career which works very well with relational databases such MariaDB or PostgreSQL. However recently I had the opportunity to dig into NoSQL databases, specifically into MongoDB that offers amazing features like TTL indexes or embedded documents (aka One to Few relationships).
- MariaDB 11.8 LTS released with vector, Parsec auth, TLS-autoconfiguration etc.
Also, if you like MariaDB, show your support and help it get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server
- OpenBSD 7.6 を 7.7 へ アップグレード
- OpenBSD Upgrade 7.6 to 7.7
In addition, it also includes MariaDB update where "Binary logs are no longer purged by default unless a replica has connected", and minio update where "the MinIO Gateway and the related filesystem mode code have been removed".
- Getting Forked by Microsoft
Original license of Redis is retained in the form Valkey:
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/COPYING
Third party licenses retained in a THIRDPARTY file in MariaDB
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/main/THIRDPARTY
Only two good examples I could quickly find.
- Corgi: The CLI That Tames Your Local Microservices Chaos
mariadb
- Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports
- MariaDB (Bite-size Article)
Download from the Official Website: Visit the official MariaDB website (https://mariadb.org/) and download the version that matches your operating system.
Firebird
Posts with mentions or reviews of Firebird. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Firebird yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MariaDB and Firebird you can also consider the following projects:
PostgreSQL - Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
SQLite - Unofficial git mirror of SQLite sources (see link for build instructions)
MySQL - MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.
ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system