I would suggest that anybody interested in performance test these claims in their own setup. I ran tests doing binary swapping binaries when the releases of bo

I would suggest that anybody interested in performance test these claims in their own setup. I ran tests doing binary swapping binaries when the releases of both were around 5.5.34 and in my case MySQL CE had between 10%-15% better performance. When I ran the tests for MariaDB 10.x and MySQL CE 5.6.x the advantage even went further for MySQL with around 20% better performance. I find always funny how with every release you can get opposing claims from each camp regarding performance.