mariadb

Install command:
brew install mariadb

Also known as: mariadb@12.3

Drop-in replacement for MySQL

https://mariadb.org/

License: GPL-2.0-only

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/mariadb.json

Formula code: mariadb.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 12.3.3

Other versions:

mariadb@11.8 11.8.9 Drop-in replacement for MySQL
mariadb@11.4 11.4.13 Drop-in replacement for MySQL
mariadb@10.11 10.11.19 Drop-in replacement for MySQL
mariadb@10.6 10.6.28 Drop-in replacement for MySQL
mariadb@10.5 10.5.29 Drop-in replacement for MySQL

Depends on:

groonga 16.1.0 Fulltext search engine and column store
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
lzo 2.10 Real-time data compression library
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre2 10.48 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
xz 5.8.3 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

bison 3.8.2 Parser generator
cmake 4.4.3 Cross-platform make
fmt 12.2.0 Open-source formatting library for C++
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
openjdk 26.0.2.1 Development kit for the Java programming language

Uses from macOS: bzip2, krb5, libedit, libxcrypt, libxml2, ncurses

Conflicts with: mysql (because mariadb, mysql, and percona install the same binaries), percona-server (because mariadb, mysql, and percona install the same binaries)

Binaries: aria_chk, aria_dump_log, aria_ftdump, aria_pack, aria_read_log, galera_new_cluster, innochecksum, mariabackup, mariadb, mariadb-access, mariadb-admin, mariadb-backup, mariadb-binlog, mariadb-check, mariadb-client-test, mariadb-config, mariadb-conv, mariadb-convert-table-format, mariadb-dump, mariadb-dumpslow, mariadb-find-rows, mariadb-fix-extensions, mariadb-hotcopy, mariadb-import, mariadb-install-db, mariadb-ldb, mariadb-migrate-config-file, mariadb-plugin, mariadb-secure-installation, mariadb-setpermission, mariadb-show, mariadb-slap, mariadb-test, mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql, mariadb-upgrade, mariadb-waitpid, mariadb_config, mariadbd, mariadbd-multi, mariadbd-safe, mariadbd-safe-helper, mbstream, msql2mysql, my_print_defaults, myisam_ftdump, myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, myrocks_hotbackup, mysql, mysql.server, mysql_client_test, mysql_config, mysql_convert_table_format, mysql_find_rows, mysql_fix_extensions, mysql_install_db, mysql_ldb, mysql_plugin, mysql_secure_installation, mysql_setpermission, mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysql_upgrade, mysql_waitpid, mysqlaccess, mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe, mysqld_safe_helper, mysqldump, mysqldumpslow, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlimport, mysqlshow, mysqlslap, mysqltest, mytop, perror, rcmysql, replace, resolve_stack_dump, resolveip, sst_dump, wsrep_sst_backup, wsrep_sst_mariabackup, wsrep_sst_mysqldump, wsrep_sst_rsync, wsrep_sst_rsync_wan

Service:

Start now and at login: brew services start mariadb
Run directly: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/mariadb/bin/mariadbd-safe --datadir=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/mysql
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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