MariaDB is an opensource project that is an offshoot of MySQL because the Oracle. The developers felt that Oracle was doing a poor job managing MySQL (of this database actually, the developers came from Oracle), and created MariaDB in response to what they considered Oracle's poor management of MySQL. Because MariaDB this database was built to be a better managed version of MySQL, many of the resources on the internet for MySQL will be applicable for MariaDB. Below are several topics on MariaDB to make it operate in the context of running on an NGINX server.