We are excited to announce that HexaRocket now supports Oracle to MariaDB Database Migration, enabling enterprises to seamlessly migrate schema, data and replicate data from Oracle databases to MariaDB. With this release, Oracle to MariaDB Database Migration becomes significantly simpler, faster, and safer using HexaRocket, an enterprise database migration and replication tool. This announcement marks an important milestone in our journey of helping organizations modernize their databases with minimal risk and downtime, reinforcing our commitment to open-source–driven modernization.
MariaDB is a high-performance, open-source relational database management system that was created as a community-driven fork of MySQL. Designed for enterprise reliability, scalability, and innovation, MariaDB is widely adopted across industries as a modern alternative to proprietary databases. It offers advanced storage engines, strong performance characteristics, cloud readiness, and a rapidly evolving feature set, making it an attractive choice for organizations looking to reduce costs while maintaining enterprise-grade capabilities.
One of the key reasons MariaDB is gaining traction as a target for Oracle migrations is its growing focus on Oracle compatibility. MariaDB provides multiple layers of compatibility to ease migration and reduce application rewrite efforts.
MariaDB includes an Oracle SQL mode (SQL_MODE=ORACLE) that modifies SQL behavior to align more closely with Oracle semantics. This helps in handling Oracle-style SQL syntax, functions, and behaviors, reducing friction during schema and query migration.
MariaDB supports Oracle-like data type mappings and function equivalents, making it easier to convert schemas and stored logic. This compatibility allows many Oracle workloads to run with minimal changes after migration.
With Oracle compatibility features combined with open standards, MariaDB enables organizations to modernize applications incrementally - migrating databases first while planning application refactoring later.
HexaRocket is an end-to-end database migration and replication tool designed to simplify complex enterprise migrations. With the addition of Oracle to MariaDB, HexaRocket now supports a wide range of source and target combinations as listed below.
With Oracle to MariaDB now added, HexaRocket further strengthens its role as a central migration hub for heterogeneous database environments.
HexaRocket is built to support online migrations at scale, ensuring control, reliability, and performance.
With Oracle → MariaDB support, HexaRocket continues its mission to provide a single platform for enterprise database migrations.
The addition of Oracle to MariaDB migration and replication in HexaRocket enables organizations to significantly reduce Oracle licensing costs and confidently transition to an open-source database like MariaDB. By combining MariaDB’s Oracle compatibility with HexaRocket’s automation and online replication capabilities, enterprises can modernize their database landscape with minimal risk, downtime, and operational complexity.
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