Which is faster among MySQL Community Server, Percona and MariaDB
I recently ran into this benchmark results:

https://blog.mariadb.org/benchmarking-mariadb-5-3-4/

The conclusion here was that MySQL-5.5 is the mos performing among others.

The tested editions here are :


MariaDB-5.3.4 – the Monty Program release candidate, both with XtraDB
and the InnoDB plugin
Percona-Server 5.1.61 because it is based on the same XtraDB
version as MariaDB-5.3
Percona-Server 5.5.20 – the current Percona flagship
MySQL-5.5.20 – the current Oracle flagship


Hope i helped