MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL(R) Database
Server. It includes all major open source storage engines.
The source code for MariaDB is
[[getting-the-mariadb-source-code|publically available]] from
[[http://code.launchpad.net/maria|Launchpad]]. Binaries and packages are
[[http://mariadb.org/download|also available]].
