Mariadb is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded sql database server. sql (structured query language) is the most popular database query language in the world. the main goals of mariadb are speed, robustness and ease of use.

this package includes development libraries and header files for the mariadb client library for c.

note that mariadb also comes with an included version of the client library. the main reason to use this package, rather than libmariadbclient-dev, is differences in licensing: this package uses the lgpl, while libmariadbclient-dev uses the gpl.