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I am leaning towards MariaDB due to its faster speed and most of my sites build with it are doing fine.
I have recently ran into an issue about outdated MySQL from my server. They are using 5.7 version, which currently MySQL is at 9.0+ . It causes some of my elements like forms to have error sending through queries. Keeps showing error when non login users tried to fill up forms from the website.
I read somewhere that MariaDB is not doing financially as sounding as they wanted it to be, will that be a concern? but MySQL is pretty classic and will like to move away from it.
Both have similar performance and you can move easily from one to the other for most use cases. MariaDB has become more ubiquitous but MySQL community edition is still going strong. WordPress is also getting official SQLite support in a year or two, which will be great for small sites like personal blogs, portfolios, landing pages, etc.
MySQL 5.7 is a fast version; the newer ones are slower.
Personally, I prefer MariaDB because of its better performance.
Actually MariaDB was a clone of MYSQL by the founder of MySQL. Now MYSQL is under Oracle & MariaDB is under the founder of MySQL.
Both are almost similar. Oracle have fund & MariaDB foundation funded from sponsorship & donation.
I came across people using MariaDB more often
They’re pretty similar. Stick to what you know! I suspect if MariaDB’s funding went then someone else would buy into them.
MySQL 5.7 is EOL but WordPress still supports it. More than 20% of sites are still running 5.7 so I don’t think they’ll drop support too soon although hosts are gradually nudging people to upgrade.
I think the most important thing with bulky page builder plugins like Elementor is having a full page cache and a decent object cache setup like Redis or Memcached.