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I might have agreed with that when the two initially forked, however the gap continues to widen:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibi...

So far as liking one versus the other; they are the same. Nobody is going to say "I like MySQL over MariaDB because I have to change MarioDB options to make it work the same as MySQL".

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