My host uses mariadb and won’t let me change to MySQL will this cause issues?

Using Ghost
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Will this cause any issues? They use MariaDB version 10.5.19.

I can use MySQL on my VPS but I only have 1GB of RAM so I was trying to alleviate some of the stress on my VPS cause MySQL eats a lot of that when I use it on my VPS so I was using remote SQL to my web hosting.

Will this be an issue? I can’t afford to move hosts right now and move to DO or Linode or anywhere else. I have this VPS until 3/2024 so I really don’t want to have to give up the ghost (pun intended heh).

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I’m no expert, but there’ll probably be no issues. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, so they’re pretty much the same. Some say MariaDB is even more efficient

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The advice above was correct only up to about 5.20. The current version of Ghost requires MySQL and will not run on MariaDB.