mariadb have all the feature of mysql what extra you need ?
For me.. with Magento + MariaDB i have a lot of database corrupted.
The site was installed on another server with mysql 5.x and had no problems,
I dont know what happened when I imported here because I made a dump to mysql since phpmyadmin was not working ..
This is why i prefer mysql 5.x instead mariadb for now.
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] InnoDB: Percona XtraDB (
http://www.percona.com) 5.6.34-79.1 started; log sequence number 427068511
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140098563704576 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] Recovering after a crash using tc.log
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] Starting crash recovery...
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] Crash recovery finished.
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2017-03-17 19:01:36 140099315718176 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.1.21-MariaDB' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MariaDB Server
2017-03-17 19:13:32 140099314494208 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './xxxxxxxx/catalogsearch_fulltext' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
2017-03-17 19:13:32 140099314494208 [Warning] Checking table: './xxxxxxxx/catalogsearch_fulltext'