Hi John,
Supporting JSON is definitely something that we want to do, but realistically it will take no less than around 6 months to provide full support. One reason is that the JSON datatype isn’t supported in MariaDB yet. However from the MariaDB mailing list we understand that this is planed for MariaDB 10.2, which can also be referred here >> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/plans-for-10x/ . We want to wait for their implementation as our (client side) implementation should support both ideally with the same code.
Regards,
Sibin