mariadb

brew install mariadb v12.3.2 GPL-2.0-only

MySQL-compatible open-source relational database server written in C++.

Why you might care

Drop-in replacement for MySQL with better performance, more features, and active development from the MariaDB Foundation. Use this if you need a self-hosted SQL database for local development, testing, or production workloads and want to avoid Oracle's MySQL licensing or prefer MariaDB's community governance. Includes storage engines like InnoDB, Aria, and Columnstore for different use cases.

Alternatives

MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite Percona Server

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Runtime dependencies

groonga lz4 lzo openssl@3 pcre2 xz zstd

Build dependencies

bison cmake fmt pkgconf openjdk

Caveats

A "/etc/my.cnf" from another install may interfere with a Homebrew-built
server starting up correctly.

MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default

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