[vidar]

Wordpress and PHP in general are very MySQL heavy I think. That is a lot of volume.

[b112]

Yet mariadb is what is installed most often for mysql usage requirements.

[evanelias]

These days, most smaller users go with a managed DBaaS such as AWS RDS, and on RDS MySQL gets massively more usage than MariaDB.

I build schema management software for MySQL and MariaDB, https://www.skeema.io, used by several hundred companies. Among my userbase, MariaDB is a tiny minority, to such an extent that I wonder if it's worthwhile to continue keeping up with their new quarterly release schedule.

[trey-jones]

MariaDB is more closely aligned with Wordpress and PHP in terms of licensing. I sort of assumed that most users of (FL)OSS who had previously used MySQL would be using MariaDB by now, but based on comments in this topic I must be wrong.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

i use maria and PHP...