How To Install MariaDB
[MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) is an open-source relational database management system, commonly used as an alternative for MySQL as the database portion of the popular [LAMP](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04) (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. These tutorials will explain how to install and test MariaDB on your server. Choose your operating system to get started.
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