MariaDB

When Oracle got their hands on MySQL, original developers fled and forked MySQL into an open-source product MariaDB. It remains fully compatible with MySQL, but its development is completely transparent, unlike MySQL nowadays. Notable users of MariaDB include Wikipedia, Facebook and Google.

It is an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL and can be safely used instead of MySQL. Latest versions include GIS and JSON features.

As MariaDB is derived from MySQL and is compatible in connection mechanisms with it, all our applications that work with MySQL will work perfectly with MariaDB database.

LocalDB

data types we support

Integral
bigint
int
smallint
tinyint
decimal
decimal (numeric)
double
float (real)
money
smallmoney
text
char
nchar
ntext
nvarchar (sysname)
nvarchar (max)
text
varchar
varchar(max)
Binary
binary
bit
timestamp
varbinary
Date/Time
date
datetime
datetime2
datetimeoffset
smalldatetime
time
Large objects
geography
geometry
image
ntext
nvarchar(max)
text
varbinary(max)
varchar(max)
xml
Other
dynamicobject
hierarchyid
sql_variant
table
uniqueidentifier