This is incredibly useful for anyone who wants to build their own DB or wrap another datasource so it's queryable via MySQL protocol.
Posted this in our Discord :-)
Oh, crikey, that's handy for a lot of things which will only allow you the choice of MySQL or Postgres.
Came here to post this. I'm super interested in versioned databases. They provide so many things "you're going to want" (audit log of changes over time, point in time queries, undo/redo) "for free". Dolt is the one I'm most hopeful for.