Installing a MariaDB database server

Supporting over 70 collations, more than 30 character sets, multiple storage engines, and deployment in virtualized environment, MySQL is a mission-critical database server that is used by production servers all over the world. It is capable of hosting a vast number of individual databases and it can provide support for various roles across your entire network. MySQL server has become synonymous with the World Wide Web (WWW), is used by desktop software, extends local services, and is one of the world's most popular relational database systems. The purpose of this recipe is to show you how to download, install, and lockdown MariaDB, which is the default implementation of MySQL in CentOS 7. MariaDB is open source and fully compatible with MySQL and adds several new features; for example, a non-blocking client API library, new storage engines with better performance, enhanced server status variables, and replication.

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