I see there was another thread here: Problem installing MySQL in Fedora 31 - #2 by eulijn
But is the correct answer to not use mariadb? It seems the issue was never resolved (well the issue of actually using mariadb). I’m having the same problem, when I run systemctl start mariadb it hangs and does not work.
It works for me on Fedora 33:
wcjohnso/manager-for-lustre
Check the logs:
journalctl --no-pager -u mariadb.service
Turns out the VM I was using had a full hard drive!
Unfortunately nothing in journalctl or mariadb initialization complained about that. Though rare, seems that would be a pretty good log item for them to add 
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