Why A number of reasons, but the one that was the trigger for me was: MariaDB does not have JSON data type MySQL version 5.7 does have JSON data type. System info The server I tested this process on has the following details: uname -a: Linux s14.iotau.io 3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 15 04:15:27 UTC 2018 […]