In this episode, we speak with Rob Hedgpeth, a  director of developer developer relations at Maria DB.  We explore all things Maria DB, the capabilities it has and when you should consider it for your next project.  Top 3 value bombs: MariaDB follows a shared nothing architecture and supports distributed SQL for unlimited scaling on demand.MariaDB can handle many types of storage (i.e. document store, graph and spatial)When deciding on your next relational database do not just look at options available within your cloud service provider, include Databases as a Service within your analysis (i.e. Sky SQL - Maris DB’s commercial product).