MariaDB
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 23, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“as we use MariaDB we can't use PGLite”
“there's literally zero risk of the MariaDB server suddenly going closed-source”
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“Just fucking use PostgreSQL, or even MariaDB.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite 2 mentions
- Running MariaDB in the Browser with WebAssembly 1 mention
- Show HN: A search engine for VPS servers with an automatic crawler pipeline 1 mention
- Ask HN: What is your dev set up like? 1 mention
- It's 2026, Just Use Postgres 1 mention
- European Commission issues call for evidence on open source 1 mention
Data: mariadb.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“as we use MariaDB we can't use PGLite”
“in comparison tests, MariaDB would consume half of its query time on sorting”
“there's literally zero risk of the MariaDB server suddenly going closed-source”
“pages sometimes render for several seconds which I've never seen under MariaDB. Used to be instantaneous, always.”
“HeidiSQL and MariaDB for SQL.”
“compared to the MariaDB-based search we'd been using previously”
“Just fucking use PostgreSQL, or even MariaDB.”
“I need to be using MariaDB since it's what we use in production”