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 What is Joomla?
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 * [Joomla!](https://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html) is a **Content Management System** (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.
-* It is a simple and powerful web server application which requires a server with PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL to run. You can find [full technical requirements here](https://downloads.joomla.org/technical-requirements).
+* It is a simple and powerful web server application which requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL to run. You can find [full technical requirements here](https://downloads.joomla.org/technical-requirements).
 * Joomla! is **free and Open Source software** distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
 
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