If you are looking at building a high-availability environment, MariaDB has some distinct advantages over standard MySQL. While MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, it offers better performance in clustering scenarios and provides native support for Galera. This makes it more suitable for multi-region, fault-tolerant deployments where data integrity is the top priority
The development model for MariaDB is also very open, which has led to better optimization for these types of distributed systems. For teams that do not want to manage the underlying complexity of setting this up, using a managed cloud platform like AccuWeb.Cloud can be helpful since they offer production-ready solutions that handle the configuration for you.