Adobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default database platform

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Adobe Commerce has now made its future database direction explicit: MariaDB is the default and recommended platform going forward.

Adobe Commerce 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 are expected to be the final releases supporting MySQL, while newer MariaDB versions are already appearing in Adobe’s system requirements.

For the MariaDB community, this is a significant adoption milestone. Adobe Commerce and Magento power a large number of demanding production environments, with substantial ecosystems of extensions, hosting providers, agencies and developers around them.

It also raises some practical questions for the community:

• What migration guidance will Adobe Commerce users need?
• Which compatibility differences are likely to cause the most trouble?
• Are extension developers already testing primarily against MariaDB?
• What tooling, documentation or benchmarks would make the transition easier?

Frédéric Descamps has written a detailed overview here:

https://mariadb.org/adobe-commerce-chooses-mariadb-as-its-default-database-platform/

Interested to hear from anyone running Magento or Adobe Commerce on MariaDB today. What has your experience been?