Question

Is MariaDB better than MySQL?

Answer 1

Yes ofcourse MariaDB is better than MySQL. Here are few reasons to support my answer:

MariaDB supports more storage engines

Supports these:

• ColumnStore, a column oriented storage engine optimized for Data warehousing.
• MyRocks, a storage engine with great compression, added from version 10.2
• Aria, MyISAM replacement with better caching..
• FederatedX (drop-in replacement for Federated)
• OQGRAPH.
• SphinxSE.
• TokuDB.
• CONNECT.
• SEQUENCE.
• Spider.
• Cassandra.

MariaDB has many different improvements and optimizations in the speed of data processing.