[vishnu]

Oracle MySQL is essentially identical in a lot of respects to MariaDB. Biggest issue with Oracle MySQL is recent releases have broken features.

Yes, I agree, the version of mysql that I use is from Slackware 14.2, which at this point is years old and has security vulnerabilities, but my database is on the darkweb and only selected viewers have the URL, and I watch the weblog to see if anyone I don't know has found access to it, and so far no one has. But either way I have the database backed up on a different computer, so if someone does manage to hack it I can restore it, and then worry about security updates..