diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dbi/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dbi/package.py
index 49cfa2a22e..cca20df5ec 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dbi/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-dbi/package.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class RDbi(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/DBI_0.7.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/DBI"
 
+    version('1.1.0', sha256='a96db7fa39a58f1ed34c6e78d8f5f7e4cf0882afb301323b5c6975d6729203e4')
     version('1.0.0', sha256='ff16f118eb3f759183441835e932b87358dd80ab9800ce576a8f3df1b6f01cf5')
     version('0.4-1', sha256='eff14a9af4975f23f8e1f4347d82c33c32c0b4f4f3e11370c582a89aeb8ac68e')
     version('0.7', sha256='2557d5d59a45620ec9de340c2c25eec4cc478d3fc3f8b87979cf337c5bcfde11')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rmariadb/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rmariadb/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac7ea12323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-rmariadb/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RRmariadb(RPackage):
+    """Implements a 'DBI'-compliant interface to 'MariaDB'
+    (<https://mariadb.org/>) and 'MySQL' (<https://www.mysql.com/>)
+    databases."""
+
+    homepage = "https://rmariadb.r-dbi.org/"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RMariaDB_1.0.8.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RMariaDB"
+
+    version('1.0.8', sha256='3c8aedc519dc063ceb068535a3700bc5caf26f867078cc5a228aa8961e2d99f5')
+
+    depends_on('r@2.8.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-bit64', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-dbi@1.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-hms@0.5.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-rcpp@0.12.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-bh', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-plogr', type=('build', 'run'))
+
+    # non-R dependencies
+    depends_on('mariadb-client')