Version 0.0.x: SQRL is suffering from node engine changes somewhen between 15x and 16x. In the meanwhile, this lib is just going to be an abstraction driver

Design Goals:

• as long as I can get away with it, I prefer drivers/DDL that are compatible with maria and mysql going back to 5.7
  • I trust docs from maria team more than Oracle's.
• maria node dev docs say to use
  • npm mariadb (2 months since last release, 224 stars, 150 dependents)
    • ++ native Readable stream inserts
    • • batching for when I can't use streaming
  • but another contender has serious eyes-on: npm mysql (2 years since last release, 17k stars, 6k dependents)
    • • stream-reads
    • 3rd party guide
    • • has built-in support for AWS:RDS certs
  • another is npm mysql2 ((days old, 3k, 3k))

see also the provisioning tool ~/projects/ashnazg-npm/precipitator/mariadb.js