I'm a big fan of MySQL. The community edition of the MySQL server, as the open-source database is formally known, is a popular choice for both development and deployment because it checks all the ...

Because MySQL still has better name recognition by far, mostly. Literally the *only* step that changes is "apt install mysql-server" becomes "apt install mariadb-server".

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