What do you like best about the product?

There are functions and datatypes which mariadb provides for encryption
There are tools which can easily backup and restore the database both logically and physically
Since it will store data it need to have data storage management and mariadb performs well
Different access levels.premissions are defined for users
It is so extensive that it can be done per user per table
There are many many programming languages which has connectors for MariaDB
For High Availability, we need clustering and mariadb provides it as Galera Clusters
Data is very easily imported and exported
It is used everyday
Very easy to use and implement
Great user community providing support

What do you dislike about the product?

There are some limitations when querying and inserting data which causes deadlocks which is a know issue
other than that there's not much that can be disliked

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using 3 Instances of mariadb as a Galera cluster
It is free, therefore saves cost
The great user community available makes it easy to solve issues
It can be extensively optimized to suit the use
We connect Magento to mariadb as database