The MariaDB software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and
robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MariaDB Server is
intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for
embedding into mass-deployed software.

The mariadb server is compiled with the following storage engines:

- Aria Storage Engine
- Archive Storage Engine
- Blackhole Storage Engine
- CSV Storage Engine
- FederatedX Storage Engine (Federated replacement)
- Heap Storage Engine
- MyISAM Storage Engine
- MyISAMMRG Storage Engine
- Partition Storage Engine
- Perfschema Storage Engine
- Percona XtraDB Storage Engine (InnoDB replacement)

A multitude of storage engines and handlers are being provided in separate sub
packages such as:

mariadb-feedback - Feedback Storage Engine
mariadb-oqgraph - Open Query GRAPH computation engine
mariadb-connect - CONNECT handler
mariadb-sphinx - Sphinx Storage Engine
mariadb-sequence - Sequence Storage Engine
mariadb-spider - Spider Storage Engine

mariadb-rocks - RocksDB Storage Engine


The following extra storage engines are provided by the mariadb-extra package

- handlersocket
- query_cache_info

The following storage engines are provided in the mariadb-obsolete package

- Federated Storage Engine