MariaDB is brought to you by the MariaDB Foundation, a non profit organization registered in the USA. The current main sponsors of the MariaDB Foundation are: Booking.com http://www.booking.com (2013 - 2016) Development Bank of Singapore http://dbs.com (2016) MariaDB Corporation https://www.mariadb.com (2013 - 2016) Visma http://visma.com (2015 - 2016) Acronis http://acronis.com (2016) Nexedi https://www.nexedi.com (2016) Automattic https://automattic.com (2014 - 2016) Verkkokauppa.com https://www.verkkokauppa.com (2015 - 2016) Virtuozzo https://virtuozzo.com (2016) For a full list of sponsors, see https://mariadb.org/about/supporters/ and for individual contributors, see https://mariadb.org/donate/individual-sponsors/ You can also get the list of sponsors by running SHOW CONTRIBUTORS. For all corporate 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 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/