Certification of MariaDB on Linux with XCOM

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC

Issue/Introduction

Has database MariaDB been certified for use with XCOM for Linux?

Environment

• XCOM™ Data Transport® for Linux PC
• Red Hat

Resolution

It is our understanding that MariaDB is highly compatible with MySQL in most of the aspects and applications that support MySQL will work seamlessly with MariaDB. MariaDB is an open source database provider and it’s not the new name for MySQL. MySQL is still one of the leading DB vendor in market and owned by Oracle.

We did not run any tests in our environment to certify XCOM with MariaDB on Linux, but we believe that XCOM will work fine with MariaDB.

Additional Information

MariaDB claims it's compatible with corresponding MySQL versions. Here is a link: MariaDB versus MySQL: Compatibility