MariaDB
MariaDB is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is a compatible drop-in replacement for the widely used MySQL database technology. It is developed by MariaDB Foundation and initially released on 29 October 2009. MariaDB has a significantly high number of new features, which makes it better in terms of performance and user-orientation than MySQL.
Basic commands
# Get all databases
show databases;
# Select a database
use <databaseName>;
# Get all tables from the previously selected database
show tables;
# Dump columns from a table
describe <table_name>;
# Dump columns from a table
show columns from <table>;
Connect to database: mariadb
# -h host/ip
# -u user As default mariadb has a root user with no authentication
mariadb -h <host/IP> -u root