Aria (storage engine)

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Aria is a storage engine for the MariaDB and MySQL relational database management systems. Its goal is to make a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. It is not transactional.

Aria has been in development since 2007 and was first announced by Michael "Monty" Widenius on his blog.^[1] Aria is used for internal temporary tables in MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database led by Widenius. Aria is not shipped with MySQL or Percona Server.

Aria was initially named "Maria", as a reference to Monty's youngest child.^[2] It was renamed Aria in 2010 to avoid confusion with the main database it is developed for, MariaDB.^[3] Chris Tooley, who won a contest to suggest the name, wrote, "Aria is Maria without the 'M'; also it is a pleasant musical term."^[4]