MariaDB is brought to you by the MariaDB foundation, a USA non profit organization. The current main members and sponsors of the MariaDB foundation are: Automattic http://automattic.com (2014) SkySQL Ab http://www.skysql.com (2013, 2014) Booking.com http://www.booking.com (2013) Parallels http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk (2013) For a full list of supporters and sponsors see https://mariadb.org/en/supporters/ You can also do this by doing 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 provides also, 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 To be able to do the above we need help from cooperations and individuals! You can help support MariaDB by be becoming a MariaDB developer or a member or sponsor of the MariaDB foundation! You can get a list of all main authors of MariaDB / MySQL by doing SHOW AUTHORS; You can get a list sponsors and contributors by doing SHOW CONTRIBUTORS; You can read more about the MariaDB foundation at: https://mariadb.org/en/foundation/