just about a drop-in replacement for MySQL

Since they forked, MySQL and MariaDB have diverged quite a bit...of course, they both support the core SQL language specification but that still leaves lots of room for differences.

We use MySQL Workbench for creating visual ERDs and building the DDL for the databases. There isn't an alternative for MariaDB that I'm aware of. An immediate problem with using this for MariaDB is that the MySQL tool adds the VISIBLE keyword to indexes. MySQL uses VISIBLE and INVISIBLE whereas MariaDB has visible indexes (with no keyword) and IGNORED indexes.

Plus, our main production database mostly uses the Aria table engine, which isn't available in MySQL. It also uses temporal tables which have a vastly different implementation between MySQL and MariaDB.

In short, MariaDB is far from drop-in replacement for MySQL for anything beyond the simplest use case.

In reply to Re^3: Perl and Mysql Queries by Bod
in thread Perl and Mysql Queries by Milti

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