Mention that PonyORM works with MariaDB as well

[dlenski]

Because MySQL and MariaDB use the same on-the-wire protocol and most SQL-level features are identical, PonyORM also works with MariaDB, using the MySQL provider.

Tested on MariaDB 10.6.14.

After creating a 'test' database, and a user 'whoever' with access to that database (GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test.* TO whoever), the "first steps" from https://docs.ponyorm.org/firststeps.html work fine, e.g.:

    from pony.orm import *
    db=Database()
    class Person(db.Entity):
        name=Required(str)
        age=Required(int)
    db.bind(provider='mysql', user='whoever', password='foobar', db='test')
    db.generate_mapping(create_tables=True)

[dlenski]

I'm aware of #270 (and its duplicate #548), which show that JSON manipulation does not yet work correctly with MariaDB.

[ottok]

@kozlovsky This has 10 +1's - could you please considering merging this?

[ottok]

I see main has no commits in past 10 months - wonder if PonyORM has been abandoned?

[sashaaero]

Hello!
If I remember correcly - we have some issues with MariaDB (as reported by users) and we've never tested MariaDB.
Not sure we can say we support it.

[ottok]

The previous PR comment explain how it was tested, how it is expected to be 99% supported and what the 1% is. I would suggest you merge this and if any users report new actual issues with reproducible case we can either fix it or add a note on what users should know about it.

[sashaaero]

I understand but saying "we support mariadb" imposes responsibilities on us.
Since we never thought about it - at least we have to think.

[ottok]

PonyORM is open source and I don't think anyone keeps you particularly accountable as you view it. Support can refer to many things. There can for example be users running a Linux distribution that only has MariaDB and they may be reading the README thinking "my database is MariaDB, can I switch my ORM to this?" and in that case the answer "yes" is valid.