Visual Studio - MariaDB - Entity Framework 6+
Dear Specialists,
We can use at the moment "Visual Studio ADO.NET Driver for MySQL" (https://www.mysql.com/products/connector/) and also there was lots of work done with Visual Studio Integration for MySQL. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-visual-studio.html).
The question is while now it is compatible with MariaDB and I can use MariaDB instead of MySQL, how long if at all there will be a point when this won't become anymore compatible.
Is this connection compatibility related with a core or some layer in MariaDB which doesn't change and so it should be working in the future.
The reason I am asking is to decide with the strategy. I am testing MariaDB with Entity Framework and the driver/connection mentioned above and it is working but what if you deviate from the connectivity at certain point?
Thank you.
Answer
We plan to stay protocol compatible with MySQL. While we have introduced few protocol extensions, the protocol is fully backward compatible.