According to Wikipedia, MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU GRP. Development was led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation. Creating a MariaDB database in Azure is an easy…
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MySQL is an open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). Azure Database for MySQL is a managed service that allows users to deploy, manage, and scale highly available MySQL databases on Azure. Creating a MySQL database in Azure is an easy process as described below: 1. Open your Azure portal and click on “Create a resource”…
PostgreSQL (fun fact: pronounced as “post-gress-Q-L”) is an open source relational database management system (DBMS) developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. PostgreSQL, just like any other open source software, is not controlled by any corporation or other private entity. The source code for PostgreSQL is available for free for anyone. Azure PostgreSQL is fully managed database as a service offering capable…
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that is versatile and supports document, key-value, wide-column, and graph databases. If you would like to learn more about Azure Cosmos DB, please read my post on Azure Cosmos DB. Creating an Azure Cosmos DB can be done in multiple ways based on what technology you are using to build…