The 2009 MySQL Camp keynote speech was delivered by Brian Aker and entitled "The State of Open Source Databases".

Continuent CTO Robert Hodges talks about future of database clustering and how Tungsten open source project fits in that picture

An useful collection of places where you can find data available for benchmarks

What is libdrizzle? A complete client library rewrite for the Drizzle project. Why is this interesting for MySQL users? It supports the MySQL protocol and provides a non-blocking I/O interface. This session will demonstrate the power of connection pooling and how to run parallel queries to decrease overall processing time. PHP examples will be used, but other languages will be very similar.