Quote Originally Posted by sherlyk View Post
MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter: My
He is not happy with the way Oracle develop MySQL. So created another database server named after his 2 nd daughter Maria.

https://mariadb.org

MaiaDB is is drop in replacement for MySQL, that is you can just replace MySQL with MariaDB and everything will work like nothing happened.

MySQL vs MariaDB

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-ve...ysql-features/