Is there a MariaDB server package for Macos?

My team is switching from MySQL (which has downloadable packages for MacOS) to MariaDB and I'd like to switch on my Mac as well.

When going to MariaDB's download page, I only see packages for Windows and a few flavors of Linux. My first assumption was "okay, MariaDB doesn't offer packages for MacOS" but when searching, I was able to find this page which says that .pkg files are available: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/installing-mariadb-server-pkg-packages-on-macos/

But I wasn't able to actually locate a downloadable package, either in .pkg form or in .tar.gz form.

I see that it is available via Homebrew (which I'm using), but I was hoping to get an "official" package.

Solution 1:

You can download the latest (November 2018) release with an official macOS build here:

http://archive.mariadb.org/mariadb-10.1.37/macOS/

They do not provide macOS pkg builds for later versions such as 10.2, 10.3 or (alpha) 10.4.

Solution 2:

Grr... I found out my problem. I had gone to MariaDB.com instead or MariaDB.org.

Downloading from https://downloads.mariadb.org/ has all the packages I was expecting except for the .tar.gz version for MacOS. I guess they only provide a .pkg file.