MySqlConnector is the recommended ADO.NET connector for MariaDB Server. MySqlConnector is a community-maintained open-source project that provides the best performance, reliability, and compatibility with MariaDB products.

MySqlConnector is an ADO.NET data provider with support for MariaDB Server. It is licensed under the MIT License.

• Installation via NuGet

• Documentation

MariaDB Contributions

Recent Major Contributions

• Support with MariaDB:

  • For MariaDB Server 11.4+

  • Available from version

Performance Optimizations

• Implement faster parsing for result sets with multiple rows:

• Support per-query variables for CommandBehavior.SchemaOnly and SingleRow:

• Support skipping metadata for prepared statements with and later:

Timeout and Command Improvements

• Query timeout using per query variables:

• Command timeout implementation improvement:

• Various timeout improvements:

Authentication and Protocol Support

• Support :

  • Available from version

• Permit multi-authentication:

Version Compatibility

• Support new MariaDB version numbers:

  • For MariaDB Server 11.0+

  • Available from version

Some other ADO.NET connectors are:

MySQL Connector/NET

MySQL Connector/NET should generally work with MariaDB.

dotConnect for MySQL

is a free ADO.NET data provider that supports MariaDB.

• It seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008-2017.

• It supports .NET Framework 2.0-4.7, and .NET Core 1.x and 2.0

• The Commercial edition additionally provides ORM support: Entity Framework v1-v6 and Entity Framework Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect; bundled ORM visual designer tool and many other features.