I've had a very interesting discussion on Twitter regarding MarisDB: https://twitter.com/bobbytank42/status/828529312731013121 And, since MySQL and MariaDB have gone in different directions, we might want to provide MariaDB Dialects as well. For instance, it's not very intuitive for a Hibernate user to figure out that they need to use the MySQLInnoDb57Dialect to handle Timestamps with microsecond precision which have been available since MariaDB 5.3: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/microseconds-in-mariadb/ |