Answers.Body: <p><strong>Update:</strong>
  Craft 3 officially supports MariaDB 5.5+ now. <a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/requirements.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/requirements.html</a></p>
  
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  <p>Not officially, no.  MariaDB is supposed to a "drop-in" replacement for MySQL, but there are clearly areas where it is not 1:1 compatible with MySQL: <a href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/</a></p>
  
  <p>We've seen some installations using MariaDB where a query would actually return <em>incorrect</em> results and the same MySQL query on the same database returns that data correctly.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Any update on official support on the latest versions @BradBell? Or plans for it?
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Answers.Text: @RussBack no word on official support, but we haven't seen any issues with people running it in quite some time.
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Answers.Text: From my experience, craft runs much slower with big amount of data (40k categories in my case) on MariaDB, had to switch to MySQL 5.7.
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Answers.Text: Thats unfortunate for me. I was planning to setup a local dev environment on my synology NAS box. It comes with all the requirements - Apache web server, php, phpadmin and until recently msql. It has replaced mysql in a recent software update with MariaDB. I wonder if the problems you mention above are resolved in version 10 of MariaDB ( They seem to have been existent on version 5 - way back).
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Answers.Text: Entirely possible. We saw a slew of MariaDB related support tickets maybe 8-12 months ago, but really haven't seen one in awhile.
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Answers.Text: I wonder where I can poll the craft community to see if anyone has successfully used it with MariaDB 10 without any hiccups.
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Body: <p>I am hoping craft supports MariaDB. Also, since version 10, InnoDB transaction engine in MariaDB has been replaced with XtraDB. Will this work with Craft?</p>
  
Tags: <database>
Title: Does Craft Support MariaDB?
ThreadText: # Does Craft Support MariaDB?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-21)
  
  I am hoping craft supports MariaDB. Also, since version 10, InnoDB transaction engine in MariaDB has been replaced with XtraDB. Will this work with Craft?
  
  **Tags:** database
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-10-21. Score: 9
  
  **Update:**
  Craft 3 officially supports MariaDB 5.5+ now. <https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/requirements.html>
  
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  Not officially, no. MariaDB is supposed to a "drop-in" replacement for MySQL, but there are clearly areas where it is not 1:1 compatible with MySQL: <https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/>
  
  We've seen some installations using MariaDB where a query would actually return *incorrect* results and the same MySQL query on the same database returns that data correctly.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thats unfortunate for me. I was planning to setup a local dev environment on my synology NAS box. It comes with all the requirements - Apache web server, php, phpadmin and until recently msql. It has replaced mysql in a recent software update with MariaDB. I wonder if the problems you mention above are resolved in version 10 of MariaDB ( They seem to have been existent on version 5 - way username_2).  
  > **username_1**: Entirely possible. We saw a slew of MariaDB related support tickets maybe 8-12 months ago, but really haven't seen one in awhile.  
  > **username_0**: I wonder where I can poll the craft community to see if anyone has successfully used it with MariaDB 10 without any hiccups.  
  > **username_1**: Either on Twitter with the #craftcms hashtag or the G+ group buildwithcraft.com/gplus should do it.  
  > **username_2**: Any update on official support on the latest versions @username_1? Or plans for it?  
  > **username_1**: @username_2 no word on official support, but we haven't seen any issues with people running it in quite some time.  
  > **username_3**: From my experience, craft runs much slower with big amount of data (40k categories in my case) on MariaDB, had to switch to MySQL 5.7.  
  
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