In recent benchmark testing, MariaDB performs somewhere between 13% to 36% faster than MySQL. Syntax differences. Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, ...

My goal here is to give you a taste of what SQL looks like in practice and to point out some of the similarities and differences between the three databases. The on-line documentation for each of ...

Second, the MySQL and MariaDB implementations of the native JSON column data type are also different. This makes for slight incompatibilities that you will need to navigate if you’re migrating ...

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.