Differences between MySQL and MariaDB

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:45:05 +0000

max_user_connections Can be changed online in MySQL. Cannot be changed in MariaDB if value was set to 0.
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA is enabled in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 by default. In MariaDB disabled by default.
Replication incompatibilities from MariaDB (Master) to MySQL (Slave)
MariaDB 10.2.0 still contains XtraDB 5.6. So MySQL 5.7 features cannot be used.
MariaDB 10.2 Window Functions are missing in MySQL 5.7
SHOW PROCESSLIST has additional column Progress in MariaDB.
Progress indication in: mysqldump --progress-reports (default on) for MariaDB.
MariaDB 10.0 on CentOS 7 uses still SysV init script. MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 7 uses SystemD init script.
binlog_row_image is implemented in MySQL 5.6 and does not exist in MariaDB 10.0.
MariaDB 10.1 and older (containing XtraDB 5.6) does not provide flexible/general tablespaces yet which where introduced by MySQL 5.7.
EXPLAIN FOR CONNCECTION does exist in MySQL 5.7 and does not exist in MariaDB 10.1 or 10.2.

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