

There is not generally any need to convert any data files. This means that for many cases, you can just uninstall MySQL and install MariaDB and you are good to go. That you should be aware of (a bug in how the old PHP5 client checks library There are some installation issues with PHP5.NET, MyODBC, Ruby, MySQL CĬonnector etc) work unchanged with MariaDB. All MySQL connectors (PHP, Perl, Python, Java.All ports and sockets are generally the same.All client APIs and structs are identical.MariaDB's client protocol is binary compatible with MySQL's client protocol.See note below for an incompatibility with views!.Data and table definition files (.frm) files are binary compatible.All filenames and paths are generally the same.MariaDB's data files are generally binary compatible with those from the equivalent MySQL version.From MariaDB 10.0, it is usually still very easy to upgrade from MySQL. Until MariaDB 5.5, MariaDB versions functioned as a "drop-in replacement" for the equivalent MySQL version, with some limitations. Incompatibilities between MariaDB and MySQL-Proxy.Incompatibilities between MariaDB 5.1 and MySQL 5.1.Incompatibilities between MariaDB 5.2 and MySQL 5.1.Incompatibilities between MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.



