MariaDB vs Airtable: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: I'm Justin, a DevOps engineer, and I give MariaDB four out of five stars. For more reviews like these, please click the link below. Before MariaDB, we had MySQL. Like a lot of companies, we use MySQL because it worked, it was relatively easy to use and it was open source and then Oracle bought it out and we are very familiar with Oracle and wanted nothing to do with any Oracle backed product. We chose MariaDB because we wanted something that was like MySQL, sort of a drop-in replacement with a lot of the same features and better community stewardship. We did not want to have another open-source project that would get swallowed up by a company like Oracle. It was very, very simple getting started with MariaDB, essentially every library and program we had to work with MySQL also worked with MariaDB. So it was just applying the same MySQL knowledge we already had to a different context. If you're thinking about MariaDB, two things, the first thing is MariaDB and MySQL have diverged a little bit more since I know initially adopted it. They are having some compatibility issues and I expect that to get a little bit worse over time. So think carefully about whether your existing MySQL tooling will in fact work with MariaDB. It's no longer necessarily a drop-in replacement. The second thing is MariaDB just announced a new release cadence, essentially before, they would have an annual release that will be supported for about, I think, five years. Now, they're releasing new updates every quarter and they're each going to be supported for one year. So, if you like the idea of more frequent updates, then you'll love MarieDB's new cadence. If not, then you may wish to consider something that's roughly equivalent that has a longer support cycle like PostgreSQL.

Onome D.: Hello, my name is Onome. I am an artist and facilitator. I am a solopreneur and I give Airtable four out of five stars. Prior to Airtable, I was using Google Drive as my content library, and I find Airtable to be better suited to the job. Well, it just so happened that I was able to receive a template for doing my content management system that made it easier for me to figure out how to organize my content in a fairly straightforward way. It was a bit of a learning curve, even with the template because I mean, there's so many options and so many customizations. So I'd say overall it's a pretty steep learning curve. In my case, having a template made a bit of an easier entry point for me. But even with that entry point, it was a little difficult to understand how to add new columns and customize the database. So I'd say it's a little bit of challenge. I would say that though Airtable has worked just fine for my purposes as a solopreneur, it's better suited to a team of people just because it has so many potential moving parts. And the way in which it is customizable, I think it would be better suited to a team of people, like a group of archivists or a group of social media content managers, that kind of thing. Those teams would be the ones that would best be served by a software like Airtable.