Using MariaDB with ASP.NET Core 2.0 • Jerrie Pelser
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation. Contributors are required to share their copyright with the MariaDB Foundation.
MariaDB intends to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary equivalency and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands.
So basically it is a fork of MySQL which is guaranteed to stay open source. And as noted it is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
So let’s put this to the test with a simple ASP.NET Core application.