Greg Strong wrote on Sat, May 27, 2017 03:05 AM UTC:
Yes, MariaDB is at least a marginal improvement on MySQL, and it's truly "open" so I think the chances are good that it will widen the gap over time. Now that Oracle owns MySQL, some are concerned about it being taken in directions that benefit Orace at the expense of the interest of their users. If this happens, the differences between MySQL and Maria will continue to increase, so it's probably best to do a migration earlier rather than later.
Yes, MariaDB is at least a marginal improvement on MySQL, and it's truly "open" so I think the chances are good that it will widen the gap over time. Now that Oracle owns MySQL, some are concerned about it being taken in directions that benefit Orace at the expense of the interest of their users. If this happens, the differences between MySQL and Maria will continue to increase, so it's probably best to do a migration earlier rather than later.