A Brief Look at MariaDB’s Roots
What Makes MariaDB Stand Out
Performance-Focused
Flexible Storage Engines
Robust Replication & Clustering
Fully Open-Source
High Availability in MariaDB
MariaDB supports several high-availability (HA) options that help organizations build resilient, fault-tolerant database environments. Whether you need simple failover, multi-node replication, or full multi-primary clustering, MariaDB offers mature and flexible patterns that fit a wide range of workloads.
MariaDB’s predictability and consistency help teams minimize downtime, reduce risk, and keep critical applications running smoothly—even during maintenance, version upgrades, or unexpected outages.
Primary-Replica Replication
This model uses a primary server that handles writes and one or more replicas for reads. It’s simple, widely deployed, and ideal for scaling read-heavy workloads while reducing load on the primary node.
Galera Cluster
Galera provides synchronous multi-primary clustering, allowing every node to accept writes while staying in sync. This ensures strong data consistency, zero data loss on failover, and smooth rolling maintenance — making it suitable for mission-critical systems.
Distributed / Multi-Region Patterns
MariaDB can replicate across datacenters and geographic regions, enabling disaster recovery, improved latency for global users, and resilience against regional outages. This architecture helps ensure continuity even when entire sites go offline.
How Crafty Penguins Uses MariaDB
At Crafty Penguins, MariaDB is an important part of our database toolkit. We use it in internal testing environments and deploy it for clients who need stable, predictable SQL performance without vendor lock-in.
MariaDB gives our engineers a reliable platform for tuning queries, setting up replication, and designing resilient database architectures. Because its behavior is consistent and well-documented, we can confidently build automation pipelines, monitoring systems, and migration plans around it.
Our hands-on experience allows us to help organizations optimize performance, strengthen reliability, and adopt database practices that scale smoothly as their applications grow.
Don't Take Our Word For It
Paul Schloeder
“Where things stand today at 1WorldSync, from an infrastructure perspective, are night and day from where they were when I first started. One cannot measure the stability and peace of mind that CraftyPenguins has brought to 1WorldSync.”
Clint Bounds
Crafty Penguins also developed a robust deployment process with seamless rollback capabilities, while DigitalOcean provides a dependable infrastructure backbone. In over two years since the migration, Plan to Eat has not experienced a single major outage — a marked improvement over previous AWS operations.
“There’s no single point of failure,” Clint notes. “When large companies on AWS face issues, our website keeps running smoothly — and that feels great.”
Paul Schloeder
“Where things stand today at 1WorldSync, from an infrastructure perspective, are night and day from where they were when I first started. One cannot measure the stability and peace of mind that CraftyPenguins has brought to 1WorldSync.”
Clint Bounds
Crafty Penguins also developed a robust deployment process with seamless rollback capabilities, while DigitalOcean provides a dependable infrastructure backbone. In over two years since the migration, Plan to Eat has not experienced a single major outage — a marked improvement over previous AWS operations.
“There’s no single point of failure,” Clint notes. “When large companies on AWS face issues, our website keeps running smoothly — and that feels great.”
Paul Schloeder
“Where things stand today at 1WorldSync, from an infrastructure perspective, are night and day from where they were when I first started. One cannot measure the stability and peace of mind that CraftyPenguins has brought to 1WorldSync.”
Clint Bounds
Crafty Penguins also developed a robust deployment process with seamless rollback capabilities, while DigitalOcean provides a dependable infrastructure backbone. In over two years since the migration, Plan to Eat has not experienced a single major outage — a marked improvement over previous AWS operations.
“There’s no single point of failure,” Clint notes. “When large companies on AWS face issues, our website keeps running smoothly — and that feels great.”
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