MariaDB is brought to you by the MariaDB Foundation, a non profit organization registered in the USA. The current main members and sponsors of the MariaDB Foundation are: MariaDB Corporation http://www.mariadb.com (2013 - 2016) Booking.com http://www.booking.com (2013 - 2016) Parallels http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk (2013 - 2016) Automattic http://automattic.com (2014 - 2016) Verkkokauppa.com http://verkkokauppa.com (2015 - 2016) Visma http://visma.com/ (2015 - 2016) Webyog http://webyog.com (2015 - 2016) Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimedia.org (2015 - 2016) Acronis http://acronis.com (2016) For a full list of supporters and sponsors see https://mariadb.org/about/supporters/ You can also do this by running SHOW CONTRIBUTORS. For all corporate memberships and sponsorships please contact the MariaDB Foundation Board via foundation@mariadb.org. The MariaDB Foundation is responsible for the MariaDB source repository, the official MariaDB binaries and http://mariadb.org. The MariaDB Foundation also provides, among other things, the following services to the MariaDB community: - Code reviews and applying patches for MariaDB - QA and testing of the MariaDB server - Merging MySQL patches into MariaDB - Bug fixing in MariaDB (for bugs that affects a large part of the community) - Building the official MariaDB binaries - Maintaining http://mariadb.org - Documenting MariaDB in the MariaDB Knowledge Base http://mariadb.com/kb To be able to do the above we need help from corporations and individuals! You can help support MariaDB by becoming a MariaDB developer or a member or sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation. To donate or sponsor, go to https://mariadb.org/donate/ You can get a list of all the main authors of MariaDB / MySQL by running SHOW AUTHORS; You can get a list sponsors and contributors by running SHOW CONTRIBUTORS; You can read more about the MariaDB Foundation at: https://mariadb.org/about/