The issues I encountered while using MariaDB in place of MySQL were subtle -- most things worked as expected, which makes the issues so much more unexpected. Bu

The issues I encountered while using MariaDB in place of MySQL were subtle -- most things worked as expected, which makes the issues so much more unexpected. But at the end of the day, the same migrations produced a different schema. Arguably MariaDB made the correct decision to fix some MySQL 5.7 bugs that we were unwittingly relying upon, but the different behavior caused issues for us all the same. Rather than worry about MySQL vs MariaDB and whether the one I need is packaged and available for my distro/OS of choice, I reach for Postgres on new projects.