About MariaDB

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, created and maintained by the original MySQL developers. MariaDB is intended to remain free and is published under GPLv2. It is very similar to MySQL, meaning that most MySQL examples you find online will also work on MariaDB

Official website: https://mariadb.org/about/

Installation

MariaDB can be installed using

sudo apt install mariadb-server

To set root password, you can use:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin can be used to manage MariaDB.