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MariaDB doesn't have a commitment to binary compatibility with MySQL, though. For a time it was marketed as a drop-in replacement, but that has been increasingly untrue for over a decade now.

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Aha, I didn't know that. Looks like the marketing worked too well on me! In any case, the lie of drop-in compatibility at least I think led some people to look for alternatives that wouldn't be hampered by Oracle-era MySQL.

I didn't either until it bit me in the ass a few months back - often it's shitty proprietary software being only compatible with "genuine" (oracle) MySQL.

To be fair to vendors, it's increasingly difficult to maintain compatibility with both! Here's my very long rundown of the differences in tables/DDL alone: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/05/10/mysql-vs-mariadb-schem...

...and that doesn't even account for differences in global variables/configuration, SQL syntax, functions, replication, etc.

This is very informative, thank you.

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