There's another popular SQL database out there, and I'm not talking about MSSQL (which is OK, and it even works on Linux these days!).
PostgreSQL (pronounce it however you want; everyone else does) has been around since 1996, and a lot of people swear by it as a vastly superior product to MySQL or MariaDB.
Personally, I don't get all that excited about databases, so these sort of conversations usually pass me by in a haze of wondering-where-my-next-coffee-is-going-to-come-from.
Like MySQL and MariaDB, Postgres is available in a lot of default repositories, and a lot of popular software will give you the option of using Postgres as a backend instead of MariaDB.
