Perl5 database interface to the MariaDB/MySQL databases

 DBD::MariaDB is a Perl5 Database Interface driver for the MariaDB/MySQL
 databases. In other words: DBD::MariaDB is an interface between the Perl
 programming language and the MariaDB/MySQL programming API that comes with
 the MariaDB/MySQL relational database management systems. Most functions
 provided by this programming API are supported.
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 DBD::MariaDB is a fork of DBD::mysql (libdbd-mysql-perl) with inprovements in
 MariaDB compatibility, Perl Unicode support, and some security related bug
 fixes, at the cost of not being 100% backwards compatible.