Consider replacing MySQL with MariaDB

[JedMeister]

I recently noticed that the latest version of Magento (2.0.2) requires MySQL 5.6 (see requirements) however Debian stable only has MySQL 5.5 (see here). It does however have MariaDB 10.0 (see here). According to MariaDB website:

MariaDB 10.0 is a previous stable version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else.

The MariaDB vs MySQL comparison chart suggests that MariaDB is superior to both MySQL/MariaDB 5.5 and MySQL 5.6. However I note that another comparison chart (here) suggests that there are some MySQL 5.6 features missing. So we'll need to test that MariaDB 10.0 actually supports Magento...

From what I can gather though it should all just work OOTB:
magento/magento2#830
magento/magento2#1906
magento/magento2#2470

PS, just to add a little weight:
https://seravo.fi/2015/10-reasons-to-migrate-to-mariadb-if-still-using-mysql

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[JedMeister]

I've removed the 'mysql' and 'lamp' tags as for now this applies only to Magento appliance.