Full-text searches in MySQL and MariaDB
Until MySQL 5.6, full-text searches were only available with the MyISAM tables. But since full-text searches were implemented in InnoDB, you can also use them with this engine.
As for MySQL, MariaDB provides full-text searches with the MyISAM tables and with the Aria tables, which are the crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. Full-text searches have also been implemented in InnoDB with MariaDB 10.0.5. But the real difference from MySQL has been the introduction of a new storage engine, Mroonga, in MariaDB 10.0.15. This storage engine allows the use of a full-text search engine, Groonga, via SQL.