MySQL MariaDb compatibilty - by: floPI

Hi,

Wer'e planning to deploy Projeqtor (version 5.3.2) on SLES 12, which include MariaDB 10.0.22.

Is MariaDB compatible with Projeqtor (version 5.3.2) ?
What would be the best choice for the projeqtor databse : MariaDB10.0.22 or MySQL 5.7 ?

Thank you.