Fedora Linux's developers are considering replacing MySQL with MariaDB. That, in turn, might lead to Red Hat abandoning MySQL for MariaDB.

I’ll be working from a 16.04 instance of Ubuntu Server, but the process is quite similar on almost every Linux platform hosting MySQL. SEE: Remote access policy (Tech Pro Research) ...

If MySQL is up and running, you have all the necessary software. To pull off this task, you will need the password for the MySQL user that has permissions to access the database (s) in question.