The utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci collation does not exist in MariaDB, so MySQL dumps fail to import

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:34.579Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:34.579Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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The utf8mb4_0900 family is built on the Unicode 9.0 collation support added in MySQL 8.0 and has no equivalent in MariaDB through the 11.x series. A mysqldump taken from MySQL 8.0 carries COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci in every CREATE TABLE, and importing it into MariaDB stops with: ERROR 1273 (HY000): Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci'. The same error appears when an ORM generates that collation against a MariaDB target.

The portable choice is utf8mb4_unicode_ci, which both servers accept, or utf8mb4_bin when only byte equality matters. MariaDB 10.10 added its own utf8mb4_uca1400 family for Unicode 14, but those names are unknown to MySQL, so a schema that must load into both should avoid the newer names on either side.

Source: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-sets.html

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