diff --git a/ci/smoke-tests.yml b/ci/smoke-tests.yml
index 29b36f5f..1d34fd4e 100644
--- a/ci/smoke-tests.yml
+++ b/ci/smoke-tests.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ smoke_tests:
   - freemarker-webmvc
   - hateoas
   - jdbc-h2
+  - jdbc-mariadb
   - jdbc-mysql
   - jdbc-postgresql
   - liquibase
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/README.adoc b/jdbc-mariadb/README.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..deadb682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/README.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Tests if JDBC with MariaDB is working
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/build.gradle b/jdbc-mariadb/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..885adaee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+plugins {
+	id 'java'
+	id 'org.springframework.boot'
+	id 'org.springframework.aot.smoke-test'
+	id 'org.graalvm.buildtools.native'
+}
+
+dependencies {
+	implementation(platform(org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin.SpringBootPlugin.BOM_COORDINATES))
+	implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc")
+	implementation(project(":aot-smoke-test-third-party-hints"))
+	runtimeOnly("org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client")
+
+	testImplementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
+
+	aotTestImplementation(project(":aot-smoke-test-support"))
+	aotTestImplementation("org.awaitility:awaitility:4.2.0")
+}
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/docker-compose.yml b/jdbc-mariadb/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b9cc43f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+version: '3.1'
+services:
+  mariadb:
+    image: 'mariadb:10.8'
+    environment:
+      - 'MARIADB_DATABASE=test'
+      - 'MARIADB_USER=mariadb'
+      - 'MARIADB_PASSWORD=password'
+      - 'MARIADB_ALLOW_EMPTY_ROOT_PASSWORD=true'
+    ports:
+      - '3306'
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/aotTest/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationAotTests.java b/jdbc-mariadb/src/aotTest/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationAotTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..143ecaa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/aotTest/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationAotTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package com.example.jdbc.mariadb;
+
+import java.time.Duration;
+
+import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.aot.smoketest.support.assertj.AssertableOutput;
+import org.springframework.aot.smoketest.support.junit.AotSmokeTest;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+@AotSmokeTest
+class JdbcMariaDBApplicationAotTests {
+
+	@Test
+	void authorsCanBeQueried(AssertableOutput output) {
+		Awaitility.await().atMost(Duration.ofSeconds(10)).untilAsserted(
+				() -> assertThat(output).hasSingleLineContaining("Found author: Author[id=1, name=mbhave]")
+						.hasSingleLineContaining("Found author: Author[id=2, name=snicoll]")
+						.hasSingleLineContaining("Found author: Author[id=3, name=wilkinsona]"));
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/Author.java b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/Author.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b010e5c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/Author.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package com.example.jdbc.mariadb;
+
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapper;
+
+record Author(long id, String name) {
+	enum Mapper implements RowMapper<Author> {
+
+		INSTANCE;
+
+		@Override
+		public Author mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum) throws SQLException {
+			return new Author(rs.getInt("id"), rs.getString("name"));
+		}
+
+	}
+}
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/CLR.java b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/CLR.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74d2b195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/CLR.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.example.jdbc.mariadb;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class CLR implements CommandLineRunner {
+
+	private final JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;
+
+	public CLR(JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate) {
+		this.jdbcTemplate = jdbcTemplate;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void run(String... args) {
+		insertAuthors();
+		queryAuthors();
+	}
+
+	private void queryAuthors() {
+		List<Author> authors = jdbcTemplate.query("SELECT * FROM authors", Author.Mapper.INSTANCE);
+		for (Author author : authors) {
+			System.out.printf("Found author: %s%n", author);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void insertAuthors() {
+		List<String> authors = List.of("mbhave", "snicoll", "wilkinsona");
+
+		for (String author : authors) {
+			this.jdbcTemplate.update("INSERT INTO authors (name) VALUES (?)", author);
+		}
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplication.java b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..796c7c37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package com.example.jdbc.mariadb;
+
+import org.springframework.aot.smoketest.thirdpartyhints.HikariRuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportRuntimeHints;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+@ImportRuntimeHints(HikariRuntimeHints.class)
+public class JdbcMariaDBApplication {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+		SpringApplication.run(JdbcMariaDBApplication.class, args);
+		Thread.currentThread().join(); // To be able to measure memory consumption
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/application.properties b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0b4e06b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+spring.sql.init.mode=always
+spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mariadb://${MARIADB_HOST:localhost}:${MARIADB_PORT_3306:3306}/test
+spring.datasource.username=mariadb
+spring.datasource.password=password
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/schema.sql b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/schema.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d3ebac7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/main/resources/schema.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+CREATE TABLE authors
+(
+    id   integer PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
+    name varchar(50) NOT NULL
+);
diff --git a/jdbc-mariadb/src/test/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationTests.java b/jdbc-mariadb/src/test/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca9e8a32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc-mariadb/src/test/java/com/example/jdbc/mariadb/JdbcMariaDBApplicationTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.example.jdbc.mariadb;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+
+@SpringBootTest
+class JdbcMariaDBApplicationTests {
+
+	@Test
+	void contextLoads() {
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 0d5f0706..8a892722 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ include "freemarker-webflux"
 include "freemarker-webmvc"
 include "hateoas"
 include "jdbc-h2"
+include "jdbc-mariadb"
 include "jdbc-mysql"
 include "jdbc-postgresql"
 include "liquibase"