diff --git a/07-owncloud/docker-compose.owncloud.yml b/07-owncloud/docker-compose.owncloud.yml
index 47c4cb8..f80c4f1 100644
--- a/07-owncloud/docker-compose.owncloud.yml
+++ b/07-owncloud/docker-compose.owncloud.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ services:
     restart: always
     ports:
       - ${HTTP_PORT}:8080
-    depends_on:      
+    depends_on:
+      - mariadb
       - redis
     environment:
       - OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN=${OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN}
@@ -13,8 +14,7 @@ services:
       - OWNCLOUD_DB_TYPE=sqlite
       - OWNCLOUD_DB_NAME=owncloud
       - OWNCLOUD_ADMIN_USERNAME=${ADMIN_USERNAME}
-      - OWNCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${ADMIN_PASSWORD}
-      - OWNCLOUD_MYSQL_UTF8MB4=true
+      - OWNCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${ADMIN_PASSWORD}      
       - OWNCLOUD_REDIS_ENABLED=true
       - OWNCLOUD_REDIS_HOST=redis
     healthcheck:
@@ -25,6 +25,25 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - ${ROOT_INSTALL}/data/owncloud:/mnt/data
 
+  mariadb:
+    image: mariadb:10.11 # minimum required ownCloud version is 10.9
+    container_name: owncloud_mariadb
+    restart: always
+    environment:
+      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=owncloud
+      - MYSQL_USER=owncloud
+      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=owncloud
+      - MYSQL_DATABASE=owncloud
+      - MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1
+    command: ["--max-allowed-packet=128M", "--innodb-log-file-size=64M"]
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-u", "root", "--password=owncloud"]
+      interval: 10s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 5
+    volumes:
+      - mysql:/var/lib/mysql
+
   redis:
     image: redis:6
     container_name: owncloud_redis
@@ -40,4 +59,6 @@ services:
 
 volumes:
   redis:
-    driver: local      
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+    driver: local
+  mysql:
+    driver: local    
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