MariaDB

MariaDB 是一个采用 Maria 存储引擎的 MySQL 分支版本，是由原来 MySQL 的作者 Michael Widenius 创办的公司所开发的免费开源的数据库服务器。

Spider in MariaDB
Kentoku Shiba
Slides: Spider_in_MariaDB_20140403.pdf

MariaDB 10.0 optimizer
Sergey Petrunia and Sergei Golubchik, MariaDB developers
Slides: mariadb-10_0-optimizer-apr2014.pdf

MariaDB and ScaleDB showcase
Moshe Shadmon, ScaleDB
Show case of how to insert continuously 1 Million rows/second while doing concurrent reads with MariaDB and ScaleDB
Slides: Scaledb-2014-v4.pptx

Vitess, CAP, and Hitting the sweet spot @YouTube
Sugu Sougoumarane, Google
Slides: Vitess_and_CAP.pdf

Big data with NEO (distributed database powered by MariaDB) and Scikit-learn
Jean-Paul Smets, Nexedi
Slides: NXD-Wendelin.Presentation.MariaDB-005-en.pdf

detail in  https://mariadb.org/en/community-events/2014-04-santa-clara/

MySQL增强版本Percona Server

Percona 为 MySQL 数据库服务器进行了改进，在功能和性能上较 MySQL 有着很显著的提升。

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/