Which is faster among MySQL Community Server, Percona and MariaDB I have a small setup of MySQL Community Server version 5.6 running on KVM based VPS. 4 CPU cores are available and total memory is limited to 1GB. I use MyISAM tables mainly for Wordpress and few other personal projects.

Which server can best suit my requirements among MySQL Community Server(all 5.x versions), Percona and MariaDB? I am basically looking for better performance (mainly read) and resource utilization.
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