diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dbe3c51..e36bf68 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.0.7] - 2026-11-02
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Creating a dump failed on MariaDB when only MySQL 8's `mysqldump` was installed (`Unknown table 'COLUMN_STATISTICS'`); it now passes `--column-statistics=0` in that case.
+
 ## [0.0.6] - 2026-10-04
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 01f6008..0be72f6 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "description": "Export database dumps for Shopware 6 environments.",
     "type": "shopware-platform-plugin",
     "license": "MIT",
-    "version": "0.0.6",
+    "version": "0.0.7",
     "keywords": [
         "shopware",
         "shopware6",
diff --git a/src/Service/DumpBinaryLocator.php b/src/Service/DumpBinaryLocator.php
index 7083d31..ff5b442 100644
--- a/src/Service/DumpBinaryLocator.php
+++ b/src/Service/DumpBinaryLocator.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use AeonDumpManager\Service\Exception\DumpBinaryNotFoundException;
 use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
 use Shopware\Core\System\SystemConfig\SystemConfigService;
 use Symfony\Component\Process\ExecutableFinder;
+use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
 
 /**
  * Picks mariadb-dump/mysqldump depending on what the configured DB connection
@@ -38,6 +39,19 @@ class DumpBinaryLocator
         throw DumpBinaryNotFoundException::create($binaryNames);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @return list<string> client-specific flags for the located binary
+     */
+    public function extraArguments(string $binary): array
+    {
+        $version = new Process([$binary, '--version']);
+        $version->run();
+
+        return MySqlVariant::needsColumnStatisticsOff($version->getOutput(), $this->isMariaDb())
+            ? ['--column-statistics=0']
+            : [];
+    }
+
     private function isMariaDb(): bool
     {
         // Connection::getServerVersion() is private in the DBAL version this
diff --git a/src/Service/DumpService.php b/src/Service/DumpService.php
index d0cb382..8e8b958 100644
--- a/src/Service/DumpService.php
+++ b/src/Service/DumpService.php
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ class DumpService
             $binary,
             '--single-transaction',
             '--quick',
+            ...$this->dumpBinaryLocator->extraArguments($binary),
             '-h', (string) ($params['host'] ?? '127.0.0.1'),
             '-P', (string) ($params['port'] ?? 3306),
             '-u', (string) ($params['user'] ?? 'root'),
diff --git a/src/Service/MySqlVariant.php b/src/Service/MySqlVariant.php
index 1f609da..b247833 100644
--- a/src/Service/MySqlVariant.php
+++ b/src/Service/MySqlVariant.php
@@ -14,4 +14,18 @@ class MySqlVariant
     {
         return stripos($serverVersion, 'mariadb') !== false;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * MySQL 8+ mysqldump queries information_schema.COLUMN_STATISTICS, which
+     * MariaDB lacks (error 1109); --column-statistics=0 skips it. MariaDB's own
+     * client (version string contains "MariaDB") and MySQL < 8 don't know the flag.
+     */
+    public static function needsColumnStatisticsOff(string $clientVersion, bool $serverIsMariaDb): bool
+    {
+        return $serverIsMariaDb
+            && !self::isMariaDb($clientVersion)
+            // MySQL < 8 prints "Ver 10.13 Distrib 5.7.x": the Distrib number is the real version.
+            && (preg_match('/Distrib (\d+)\./', $clientVersion, $m) === 1 || preg_match('/\bVer (\d+)\./', $clientVersion, $m) === 1)
+            && (int) $m[1] >= 8;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Service/MySqlVariantTest.php b/tests/Service/MySqlVariantTest.php
index 8947726..68804b7 100644
--- a/tests/Service/MySqlVariantTest.php
+++ b/tests/Service/MySqlVariantTest.php
@@ -21,4 +21,20 @@ class MySqlVariantTest extends TestCase
         yield 'mariadb without legacy prefix' => ['10.11.2-MariaDB', true];
         yield 'mariadb lowercase' => ['10.11.2-mariadb', true];
     }
+
+    #[DataProvider('columnStatisticsProvider')]
+    public function testNeedsColumnStatisticsOff(string $clientVersion, bool $serverIsMariaDb, bool $expected): void
+    {
+        self::assertSame($expected, MySqlVariant::needsColumnStatisticsOff($clientVersion, $serverIsMariaDb));
+    }
+
+    public static function columnStatisticsProvider(): iterable
+    {
+        $mysql8 = 'mysqldump  Ver 8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 for Linux on x86_64 ((Ubuntu))';
+        yield 'mysql 8 client, mariadb server' => [$mysql8, true, true];
+        yield 'mysql 8 client, mysql server' => [$mysql8, false, false];
+        yield 'mysql 5.7 client, mariadb server' => ['mysqldump  Ver 10.13 Distrib 5.7.44, for Linux (x86_64)', true, false];
+        yield 'mariadb client, mariadb server' => ['mariadb-dump from 11.4.2-MariaDB, client 10.19 for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64)', true, false];
+        yield 'mariadb legacy mysqldump name' => ['mysqldump  Ver 10.19 Distrib 10.11.6-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64)', true, false];
+    }
 }