It's in MariaDB 5.1 and later. http://kb.askmonty.org/en/pool-of-threads http://kb.askmonty.org/en/pool-of-threads Also, Pluggable authentication is in MariaD

It's in MariaDB 5.1 and later. http://kb.askmonty.org/en/pool-of-threads http://kb.askmonty.org/en/pool-of-threads Also, Pluggable authentication is in MariaDB 5.2 and later but I don't think that it ships with any plugins.