September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Each MariaDB tree uses a MySQL tree as a codebase. For example, MariaDB 5.5 is based on MySQL 5.5. When the MySQL tree is updated, MariaDB imports the bug fixes and new features. MariaDB should be fully compatible with the corresponding MySQL tree. This means that all the SQL statements, API calls, and configuration settings that work with MySQL will produce the same results on MariaDB. If an undocumented compatibility is found, it is treated as a bug. Of course, MariaDB develops new features on top of the MySQL codebase; thus what works with MariaDB will not work on MySQL if the MariaDB-specific features are used.
In a replication environment, it is safe to replicate MySQL on a compatible version of MariaDB. ...
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