diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2ee16d59..d0f93a09 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -292,6 +292,11 @@
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.mariadb.jdbc</groupId>
+            <artifactId>mariadb-java-client</artifactId>
+            <version>3.4.0</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
             <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/jdbc/dialect/mysql/MariaDbDatabaseDialect.java b/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/jdbc/dialect/mysql/MariaDbDatabaseDialect.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d214406f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/jdbc/dialect/mysql/MariaDbDatabaseDialect.java
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Debezium Authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache Software License version 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ */
+package io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.mysql;
+
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder;
+import java.time.temporal.TemporalAccessor;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
+import org.hibernate.StatelessSession;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.MariaDBDialect;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.JdbcSinkConnectorConfig;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.SinkRecordDescriptor;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialect;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialectProvider;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.GeneralDatabaseDialect;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.SqlStatementBuilder;
+import io.debezium.connector.jdbc.relational.TableDescriptor;
+import io.debezium.time.ZonedTimestamp;
+import io.debezium.util.Strings;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link DatabaseDialect} implementation for MariaDB.
+ *
+ */
+public class MariaDbDatabaseDialect extends GeneralDatabaseDialect {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MariaDbDatabaseDialect.class);
+
+    private static final List<String> NO_DEFAULT_VALUE_TYPES = Arrays.asList(
+            "tinytext", "mediumtext", "longtext", "text", "tinyblob", "mediumblob", "longblob");
+
+    private static final DateTimeFormatter ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME_WITH_SPACE = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
+            .parseCaseInsensitive()
+            .append(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE)
+            .appendLiteral(' ')
+            .append(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME)
+            .toFormatter();
+
+    public static class MariaDbDatabaseDialectProvider implements DatabaseDialectProvider {
+        @Override
+        public boolean supports(Dialect dialect) {
+            return dialect instanceof MariaDBDialect;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Class<?> name() {
+            return MariaDbDatabaseDialect.class;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public DatabaseDialect instantiate(JdbcSinkConnectorConfig config, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+            LOGGER.info("MariaDB Dialect instantiated.");
+            return new MariaDbDatabaseDialect(config, sessionFactory);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final boolean connectionTimeZoneSet;
+
+    private MariaDbDatabaseDialect(JdbcSinkConnectorConfig config, SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
+        super(config, sessionFactory);
+        try (StatelessSession session = sessionFactory.openStatelessSession()) {
+            this.connectionTimeZoneSet = session.doReturningWork(connection -> connection.getMetaData().getURL().contains("connectionTimeZone="));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Optional<String> getDatabaseTimeZoneQuery() {
+        return Optional.of("SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected String getDatabaseTimeZoneQueryResult(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
+        return rs.getString(1) + " (global), " + rs.getString(2) + " (system)";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isTimeZoneSet() {
+        return connectionTimeZoneSet || super.isTimeZoneSet();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean shouldBindTimeWithTimeZoneAsDatabaseTimeZone() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void registerTypes() {
+        super.registerTypes();
+
+        registerType(BooleanType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(BitType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(BytesType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(EnumType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(SetType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(MediumIntType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(IntegerType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(TinyIntType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(YearType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(JsonType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(MapToJsonType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(GeometryType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(PointType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(ZonedTimestampType.INSTANCE);
+        registerType(ZonedTimeType.INSTANCE);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getMaxVarcharLengthInKey() {
+        return 255;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFormattedTime(TemporalAccessor value) {
+        return String.format("'%s'", DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME.format(value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFormattedDateTime(TemporalAccessor value) {
+        return String.format("'%s'", ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME_WITH_SPACE.format(value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFormattedTimestamp(TemporalAccessor value) {
+        return String.format("'%s'", ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME_WITH_SPACE.format(value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFormattedTimestampWithTimeZone(String value) {
+        final ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = ZonedDateTime.parse(value, ZonedTimestamp.FORMATTER);
+        return String.format("'%s'", DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME.format(zonedDateTime));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getAlterTablePrefix() {
+        return "ADD COLUMN (";
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * The use of VALUES() to refer to the new row and columns is deprecated in recent versions of MySQL,
+     * but not followed by MariaDB yet.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public String getUpsertStatement(TableDescriptor table, SinkRecordDescriptor record) {
+        final SqlStatementBuilder builder = new SqlStatementBuilder();
+        builder.append("INSERT INTO ");
+        builder.append(getQualifiedTableName(table.getId()));
+        builder.append(" (");
+        builder.appendLists(", ", record.getKeyFieldNames(), record.getNonKeyFieldNames(), name -> columnNameFromField(name, record));
+        builder.append(") VALUES (");
+        builder.appendLists(", ", record.getKeyFieldNames(), record.getNonKeyFieldNames(), name -> columnQueryBindingFromField(name, table, record));
+        builder.append(") ");
+
+        final List<String> updateColumnNames = record.getNonKeyFieldNames().isEmpty()
+                ? record.getKeyFieldNames()
+                : record.getNonKeyFieldNames();
+
+        builder.append("ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ");
+        builder.appendList(",", updateColumnNames, name -> {
+            final String columnName = columnNameFromField(name, record);
+            return columnName + "=VALUES(" + columnName + ")";
+        });
+
+        return builder.build();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void addColumnDefaultValue(SinkRecordDescriptor.FieldDescriptor field, StringBuilder columnSpec) {
+        final String fieldType = field.getTypeName();
+        if (!Strings.isNullOrBlank(fieldType)) {
+            if (NO_DEFAULT_VALUE_TYPES.contains(fieldType.toLowerCase())) {
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+        super.addColumnDefaultValue(field, columnSpec);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialectProvider b/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialectProvider
index 5c9ce281..c8c5b717 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialectProvider
+++ b/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.DatabaseDialectProvider
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.db2.Db2DatabaseDialect$Db2DatabaseProvider
+io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.mysql.MariaDbDatabaseDialect$MariaDbDatabaseDialectProvider
 io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.mysql.MySqlDatabaseDialect$MySqlDatabaseDialectProvider
 io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.oracle.OracleDatabaseDialect$OracleDatabaseDialectProvider
 io.debezium.connector.jdbc.dialect.postgres.PostgresDatabaseDialect$PostgresDatabaseDialectProvider