Looks like it’s not hibernate issue.

Behaviour changed by this improvement: HHH-9550 Closed - Allow a dialect to specify the level of catalog/schema support

MySQL connector supports “databaseTerm“ property from 8.0.17 version.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-17.html

MariaDB connector says that it’s doesn’t support SCHEMA qualifier and you should use CATALOG.

{{public boolean supportsSchemasInTableDefinitions()

}}