I read that these two databases of one author and have a lot of the same. MariaDB did not use. Can MySQL programs / drivers connect to MariaDB? or they have completely different protocols?

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    https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ :

    All client APIs, protocols and structs are identical.

    All MySQL connectors (PHP, Perl, Python, Java, .NET, MyODBC, Ruby, MySQL C connector etc) work unchanged with MariaDB.

    The author promises full compatibility. Try it.