For decades MySQL has been the rocksolid backbone of many CFML powered Web-Applications. But recently the development lost a bit traction, new cool kids appeared on the scene. The most promising one is called MariaDB, a MySQL Fork by Monty Widenius, the original MySQL founder. MariaDB grow rapidly over the last 2 years and overpaced MySQL feature- and performancewise. In this talk, we compare MySQL and MariaDB, explain what to consider when using it with CFML and share our experience in an Enterprise Infrastructure with the build-in Galera Cluster and ColdFusion 11.