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Hello, layman here. Having MariaDB database (v. 10.6.18) on a shared hosting.
If my new hosting provider has no MariaDB but MySQL and I will be importing using PHPMyAdmin, how to spot the issues?

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/how-to-migrate-from-mariadb-to-mysql-80 says:
“Before migration (from MariaDB to MySQL), you will need to convert data in other storage engines to InnoDB”

List storage engines (SQL tab of the PHPMyAdmin):

SELECT COUNT(*) as '# TABLES', 
  CONCAT(ROUND(sum(data_length) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') DATA,
  CONCAT(ROUND(sum(index_length) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') INDEXES,
  CONCAT(sum(ROUND(( data_length + index_length ) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2)), 'G') 'TOTAL SIZE', ENGINE 
FROM information_schema.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA 
 ...