MariaDB is a faster alternative to MySQL, especially since query caching was removed in MySQL 8

For example, MySQL lacks the following features for optimizing performance:
- optimizerswitch: "rowidfilter=off"
- optimizerusecondition_selectivity: 1

So it would make a lot of sense to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB for high-load projects and be up-to-date after MySQL 5.7 was deprecated