Welcome to the MariaDB Community Docs

What is this?

A community-driven, multilingual MariaDB documentation site. We're not trying to replace the official mariadb.com/kb reference — that has its place. Instead this site is task-driven and scenario-driven, aimed at:

Beginners picking up a relational database for the first time
AI developers / vibe coders using Cursor, Claude Code or Windsurf and needing LLM-friendly schemas, MCP wiring, vector search
Cloud users trying to pick between AWS RDS, Aliyun, Tencent, Azure, SkySQL

Why not just read the official docs?

The official site is comprehensive but stuck in the early-2010s information architecture:

Many entry points, high barrier, no "what should I do right now?" guidance
Limited Chinese / Korean / Spanish / Portuguese coverage
Almost nothing on agent-era workflows (MCP, vectors, NL → SQL)
Cloud guidance is scattered across each vendor's own docs

We try to fill those gaps.

Where to start?

5-minute Quickstart

Docker / Homebrew / one-click cloud.

For beginners

Database, table, index, transaction — explained plainly.

For AI developers

LLM-friendly schemas, MCP, safe agent write patterns.

MariaDB on the cloud

Pick the right managed flavor.

Versions & forks

Mainline, LTS, MySQL diffs, Percona landscape.

Operations

Backups, monitoring, migration from MySQL/PG.

Current version snapshot

Latest LTS: MariaDB 12.3 LTS (released 2026-05) — production pick
Previous LTS still maintained: 11.8 LTS (VECTOR GA) and 11.4 LTS (supported until 2029)
Rolling mainline: 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 are all EOL now, superseded by 12.3 LTS; the next rolling series hasn't started — just use 12.3 for the newest features
MySQL upstream: fully diverged — MariaDB no longer merges from MySQL

See Versions & forks.

Contributing

This site is open source. PRs welcome on GitHub for translations (ko / es / pt), corrections, and new topics.

💡 AI-friendly tip: every page on this site will soon be available as plain markdown by appending .md to its URL, so your agent can ingest it directly.