The Maria storage engine is a crash safe version of MyISAM.
Maria supports all of the main functionality of the MyISAM engine, but includes recovery support (in the event of a system crash), full logging (including CREATE, DROP, RENAME and TRUNCATE operations), all MyISAM row formats and a new Maria specific row format.
Maria is documented at
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The following section lists important, incompatible and security changes since the previous version of MySQL 6.0.
The full changelog, including many more fixes can be viewed online at