Comments - MariaDB versus MySQL - Compatibility

9 years, 11 months ago Charlie Hoy

I am in the process of changing things over form MySQL to MariaDB. I am currently running MySQL 5.1.31 and have a new server that I have done a clean RPM install of MariaDB 10.0.11 . Hoping this is not too big a leap to take?

We are running Apache / PHP on separate web-servers and I would like to know if I need to change anything on them in order for them to connect properly from Apache / PHP to the MariaDB server? Not sure if I need to update or install anything on the web-servers, such as newer libmysqlclient.so.x or? If so, what RPM should I install on the web-heads and will this cause an issue with them continuing to connect to the MySQL DB server?

What I have done on the new DB server is imported a dump file of our production DB from MySQL into the new test server runningMariaDB which appears to have went good. I have already discovered that some queries that work in the MySQL DB come up empty in MariaDB. So the next question is, where can I find a list of differences/changes/deprecated items between MySQL 5.1.31 and MariaDB 10.0.11 . Or am I going to need to look at the differences noted on this page between MySQL 5.x and MariaDB 5.x and work my way towards MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0?

Thanks!!!

 
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