[iforgotpassword]

Was wondering the same. Such a verbose readme and not a single mention of MariaDB.

I know it's moving slower and in a lot of ways it's inferior to mysql, but at the same time that would make it even better to have some contributions like this.

[vasvir]

That's not my impression. MariaDB looks to me that it has greater development velocity than MySQL.

Do not know about speed difference divergence though. I guess a speed run down would be interesting...

[iforgotpassword]

Not sure about the current state of affairs. But I think for example MySQL had json columns way earlier than mariadb, and to me they appear to have a nicer design/accompanying functions to work with them.

Also, I've run into a deadlock issue a while ago with mariadb. Skimmed their bug tracker and there are a couple similar reports, some remaining open, other getting fixes like "well I changed stuff around and I think it might solve the issue". An emerging pattern was that they think there might be a locking issue, but they're not sure, and any deadlock they can reproduce under rr (or whatever that recording debugger is called) is, according to them an issue with rr itself and a false positive. It gave me serious "we're just yoloing it" vibes. I understand it's not a trivial code base and they're probably understaffed, and I still prefer it over MySQL merely because of who owns that project but still, it left a weird impression.