> Mariadb is far, far more popular than mysql these days. It depends greatly on what metric you're using. If you look at the huge list of large, well-known tec

> Mariadb is far, far more popular than mysql these days. It depends greatly on what metric you're using. If you look at the huge list of large, well-known tech companies using MySQL, nearly all of them are literally using MySQL (or a derivative like Percona Server), not MariaDB. In combination these companies employ several hundred thousand engineers, building products on top of MySQL, not MariaDB.