diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/3_1.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/3_1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c8bc4858f719
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/3_1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{ callPackage, ... } @ args:
+
+callPackage ./. (args // {
+  version = "3.1.2";
+  sha256 = "0pgz8m8d39mvj9wnjll6c83xvdl2h24273b3dkx0g5pxj7ga4shm";
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/default.nix
index ed49d40180fd..e8430b01eb60 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, cmake
-, openssl, zlib
+, curl, openssl, zlib
 , libiconv
 , version, sha256, ...
 }:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
+let
+  isVer3 = versionAtLeast version "3.0";
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "mariadb-connector-c";
   inherit version;
 
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   cmakeFlags = [
     "-DWITH_EXTERNAL_ZLIB=ON"
     "-DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"
-  ];
+  ] ++ optional isVer3 "-DWITH_CURL=ON";
 
   # The cmake setup-hook uses $out/lib by default, this is not the case here.
   preConfigure = optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   '';
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ openssl zlib ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ openssl zlib ] ++ optional isVer3 curl;
   buildInputs = [ libiconv ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -38,6 +41,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ln -sv mariadb_config $out/bin/mysql_config
     ln -sv mariadb $out/lib/mysql
     ln -sv mariadb $out/include/mysql
+    ${optionalString isVer3 ''
+      ln -sv libmariadbclient.a $out/lib/mariadb/libmysqlclient.a
+      ln -sv libmariadbclient.a $out/lib/mariadb/libmysqlclient_r.a
+      ln -sv libmariadb.so $out/lib/mariadb/libmysqlclient.so
+      ln -sv libmariadb.so $out/lib/mariadb/libmysqlclient_r.so
+    ''}
   '';
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2cdb0043052c..12c549983219 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14889,6 +14889,7 @@ in
   libmysqlclient = mariadb-connector-c;
   mariadb-connector-c = mariadb-connector-c_2_3;
   mariadb-connector-c_2_3 = callPackage ../servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/2_3.nix { };
+  mariadb-connector-c_3_1 = callPackage ../servers/sql/mariadb/connector-c/3_1.nix { };
 
   mariadb = callPackage ../servers/sql/mariadb {
     asio = asio_1_10;