Alternatives and competitors

Sites like MariaDB

The 20 closest open source relational database alternatives to MariaDB, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to MariaDB? The closest matches are phpMyAdmin, MySQL and PostgreSQL. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About MariaDB

MariaDB mariadb.org

MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

Wikidata: database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

Top 10K · #3,829 English 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit MariaDB

Summary by Claude

Website of the MariaDB Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the open source MariaDB Server relational database, a fork of MySQL. It provides downloads, release notes, documentation news, connectors, events and sponsor information.

Who it’s for
Database administrators, developers and open source contributors
Business model
Sponsorships and donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MariaDB’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

MozillaArchive of Our OwnWikimedia movementOSFNLnet LabsApache Software FoundationOpenLDAPPostgreSQLMySQLphpMyAdmin

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to MariaDB

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MariaDB, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  2. 02
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

  3. 03
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

  4. 04
    OpenLDAP openldap.org Top 10K

    OpenLDAP, Main Page

    The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.

  5. 05
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  6. 06
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  7. 07
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  8. 08
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  9. 09
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  10. 10
    Mozilla mozilla.org Top 100 English

    Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)

    We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.

  11. 11
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  12. 12
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  13. 13
    apachefriends.org Top 10K English

    XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends

    XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP and Perl.

  14. 14
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

  15. 15
    Python python.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

  16. 16
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

    Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

  17. 17
    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English

    Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge

    SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

  18. 18
    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K

    Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

  19. 19
    OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org Top 1K English

    OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

  20. 20
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to mariadb.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones MariaDB uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What MariaDB is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://mariadb.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Brevo TXT brevo-code:9cef1781d458e775ed35ba9adaaca2a9
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx a a:jira.mariadb.org ip4:34.70.47.92/32 ip4:194.136.193.154…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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