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title: Storage backends
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# Storage backends

**Authelia** supports multiple storage backends. This backend is used
to store user preferences, 2FA device handles and secrets, authentication
logs, etc...

The available options are:

* [SQLite](./sqlite.md)
* [MariaDB](./mariadb.md)
* ~~MySQL~~ ([#512](https://github.com/authelia/authelia/issues/512))
* [Postgres](./postgres.md)