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What is Percona Server for MySQL?

Percona Server serves as a fully-compatible and enhanced open-source alternative to MySQL, designed for seamless integration. With its remarkable performance, scalability, and advanced instrumentation, the software has garnered over 5.3 million downloads, demonstrating its widespread acceptance. The support for high-performance hardware ensures that users experience outstanding reliability in their database operations.

In addition to these features, Percona Server MySQL provides enterprise-level capabilities, increased uptime, and numerous advantages that significantly boost database performance and operational efficiency. As users find themselves spending less time on tuning and administration tasks, they can redirect their focus toward more critical aspects of their projects and businesses.

Recognized as a leader in the market, Percona offers a range of enterprise-class software solutions and support options. Their services encompass consulting, managed solutions, and training for both on-premise and cloud-based open-source databases. Established with a vision that everyone deserves access to scalable, secure, and efficient database solutions without the burdens of vendor lock-in or exorbitant costs, Percona remains committed to empowering its users with the tools and knowledge they need.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
Free
Price Overview:
Free and open-source
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Percona
Date Founded:
2006
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
www.percona.com
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Product Details

Deployment
Windows
Mac
Linux
On-Prem
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Webinars
Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Percona Server for MySQL Categories and Features

Relational Database

ACID Compliance
Data Failure Recovery
Multi-Platform
Referential Integrity
SQL DDL Support
SQL DML Support
System Catalog
Unicode Support

Database Software

Backup and Recovery
Creation / Development
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Search
Data Security
Database Conversion
Mobile Access
Monitoring
NOSQL
Performance Analysis
Queries
Relational Interface
Virtualization
  • Reviewer Name: Tyler J.
    Position: Maintenance Analyst
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great Product!

    Date: Aug 14 2021
    Summary

    In general terms, it is a good product for Cloud implementations, it has shown good performance in our applications, I would recommend it.

    Positive

    It's fast and stable compared to other free solutions.
    Installation and setup is easy.
    It's very easy to learn and use.

    Negative

    I think it is possible to extend the documentation for the end user.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: DevOps engineer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    MySQL for Percona

    Date: Aug 18 2021
    Summary

    I have set up to my office environment it was really awesome.. there was more than 100 servers running.

    Positive

    It's really worth to get the visual of MySQL graphs. I hope this product will worth for everyone group of companies.

    Negative

    Nothing to say almost all there in the update of Percona.

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  • Reviewer Name: Sparsh M.
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 20,000 or More
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The amazing advantages exclusive to percona

    Date: Aug 16 2021
    Summary

    Keeping in mind the easy scalability and deployment, it deserved this rating.
    Percona is a modern day MySQL/RDBMS solution, where scalability is a pain point, logging is critical, performance is a bottleneck, and you're going to mostly work with the cloud. While it's relatively newer as opposed to more traditional offerings, it is catching up fast in features and support

    Positive

    Faster than other server solutions.
    Installation and configuration process is easy from the user's standpoint.
    Easy to learn and good support.
    Excellent performance.
    Fully free and open source.
    Additional tools also available for easy expansion.

    Negative

    Better documentation.
    A better UI.
    Regressive performance test: Currently we are relying on MySQL's load testing. Percona should have its load testing result.

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  • Reviewer Name: Lucky J.
    Position: DBA
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    MySQL with Superb features and performance

    Date: Aug 13 2021
    Summary

    It’s really easy to troubleshoot and perform maintenance using Percona tools.

    Positive

    We have been using Percona products and it has significantly improved our operations with reduced productions issues and improved performance.

    Negative

    Learning new product documentation .
    Multi cluster replication is sometime confusing.

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  • Reviewer Name: Utkarsh D.
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Really Great Sofware

    Date: Aug 12 2021
    Summary

    Really awesome for working with SQL. I used it for free trial and it is just awesome. I will recommend it to my friends and staff.

    Positive

    I really like the server which is very useful implementing SQL tasks.
    I recommend it to everyone, really appreciate able. I used it for free trial and it is just awesome.

    Negative

    Everything is awesome, I didn't found and cons. I can only give 5 star for working with it in the free trial.

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  • Reviewer Name: Aldo J.
    Position: MySQL Database Administrator
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    An excellent product!

    Date: Aug 13 2021
    Summary

    Using Percona Server for MySQL in companies is to have a robust database with many features that meet expectations
    companies in the short, medium and long term.

    Positive

    1. All features made available for free.
    2. Redeployment of upstream resources.
    3. Evolution of resources.
    4. Frequent benchmarking tests helping the community in best practices.
    5. Community support.

    Negative

    So far I haven't found anything that could discourage use.

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  • Reviewer Name: Vaibhav P.
    Position: Growth Marketer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Reliable Server for MySQL

    Date: Aug 14 2021
    Summary

    Considering It's open-source and free, we are happy to use it. Also, Percona Server can be fully deployed on the Google cloud that is very helpful.

    Positive

    We were able to achieve better performance using Percona Server. Costly features are made available free of cost. The Installation of the Server is easy and fast.

    Negative

    The Documentation and video guide of the product needs improvement.

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  • Reviewer Name: Anadee ..
    Position: Student Developer
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 10,000 - 19,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best MySQL relational database management system

    Date: Aug 26 2021
    Summary

    Overall it is a great solution to manage MySQL database . It is easy to learn and works faster than other server solutions providing good support.

    Positive

    The ease with one can install and use this makes this a perfect fit.
    Moreover the great security it provides is icing on the cake. Additional tools are available to easily expand.

    Negative

    In my opinion a better UI would make this more favourable. Documentation for the end user can be improved as well.

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  • Reviewer Name: Carl L.
    Position: Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Percona is just what we need!

    Date: Aug 16 2021
    Summary

    Our company has implemented a Percona cluster and we have had good experience, we continue to use and evaluate it.

    Positive

    * Percona run very fast queries
    * Percona needs less memory compared to Mysql
    * It's easy to integrate with other external tools
    * Is stable

    Negative

    We have not found anything that we dislike! I could only add certain doubts about MyISAM support.

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  • Reviewer Name: Sourabh M.
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Most Capable software for MYSQl

    Date: Aug 26 2021
    Summary

    It's overall great software to use, if you compare it with mysql, I don't regret my decision of switching from Mysql.

    Positive

    I have used this software for the past 1 year. Its performance is great, xtrabackup and xtradb works greater than i thought, it's better than mysql, it offered a lot more features.

    Negative

    Can't find the solutions of problems without google help, need to have paid purchase.

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  • Reviewer Name: Nicat E.
    Position: Advisor to Sales Director
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Amazing platform for drop-in replacement

    Date: Aug 14 2021
    Summary

    Generally, I would say it is an amazing product that is capable to satisfy greatly the needs of users, however, I want to highlight that there is still room for improvement.

    Positive

    It has a trial version and a free one that makes the product available for the mass as it is a great opportunity for everyone. Besides, in our system, we use Oracle MySQL and it shows amazing performance. Storage of data management is having incredible performance.

    Negative

    The user interface, generally, I would like to have it more user-friendly that we were experiencing some difficulties when we were implementing first. The scale of documentation still lacks and comparing with other actors in the marketplace for the same segment.

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  • Reviewer Name: Harsh A.
    Position: Security Engineer
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best SQL server

    Date: Aug 16 2021
    Summary

    Best.

    Positive

    Very handy to use.
    Easy to learn and execute queries.
    Very beginner friendly.
    Not much expensive & affordable.

    Negative

    Really, there isn't any cons to be honest.

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  • Reviewer Name: Peter P.
    Position: Software Developer
    Has used product for: Less than 6 months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Elegant and fast

    Date: Aug 26 2021
    Summary

    Overall, everyone in SQL work should try this out and trust me you'll love it.
    The server had all time support plus it was active and I never experienced a downtime, So yeah can say it's good.

    Positive

    I used their service for a month now and could say it's worth every effort. Awesome server for every SQL inquiries. The server support is awesome, pricing is little high but in comparison with the competitors it's good.

    Negative

    It was little difficult to move around but after little effort everything was done.

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  • Reviewer Name: Jia R.
    Position: Developer
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    Good

    Date: Aug 13 2021
    Summary

    Great experience with Percona Server for MySQL. Its compatible and provides superior server performance.

    Positive

    Ease to use, provides better performance and concurrency and has managed services and enterprise support.

    Negative

    In my opinion pricing is the issue in Percona server.

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  • Reviewer Name: Rishikesh M.
    Position: Software Engineer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Percona Server for MySQL is a great product.

    Date: Dec 23 2020
    Summary

    Percona Server For MySQL users are all over the world. An added level of stability is provided with the help of additional testing necessary for massive volumes of processing. It has many other features that provide high performance. Percona MySQL Server provides better performance, consistency, and scalability. When compared to MySQL it has a 50% improvement in performance.

    Positive

    Installation and usage are quite easy. Available as open-source software. The migration path to the Percona XtraDB cluster becomes easy because of this software. Equipped with cloud and security features.

    Negative

    The documentation available for end-users and support for large scale applications can be improved.

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  • Reviewer Name: Jai V.
    Position: Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great Mysql Server

    Date: Oct 30 2020
    Summary

    Great software. highly recommend when using Mysql database.
    Secure and easy to use. Multiple features. provide high performance.

    Positive

    It is very easy to install and use. documents are very useful.
    Multiple good features like cluster setup, HA

    Negative

    large databases and throughput. Some time need support.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Backend Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best server that I have ever seen.

    Date: Oct 28 2020
    Summary

    I really liked this and that's why giving a rating close to 10 I personally feel that everyone should give it a try.

    Positive

    It is very handy that came with so many features that are very useful and support whenever we need them. It completely changed the working of my team. Now it is efficiently working using this.

    Negative

    On a whole there are very less cons that can be observed but it has very less cons comparing others.

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  • Reviewer Name: Faizan F.
    Position: Marketing
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Fantastic MysQL DB Server for Clustering Solution

    Date: Nov 17 2020
    Summary

    Ever since I started to use this, I really liked it as it made my task easy. MySQL server offers advantages over other databases like the ease of use and advanced database functions and has the ability to handle complexity at the enterprise level. Percona Server is capable of monitoring MySQL in greater detail, capturing statistics that are otherwise hidden.

    Positive

    Percona server is best for database solutions. It is faster and safer than other servers. Working excellently with our applications.

    Negative

    There were lots of useful functions depending on what you wanted. It is a powerful tool with lots of inbuilt operations, and that could be quite overwhelming for a beginner.

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  • Reviewer Name: Asit K.
    Position: Student
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 5,000 - 9,999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It was good enough

    Date: Oct 27 2020
    Summary

    I was new to this field, so it helped me to grasp how things work in the tech field and I am thankful to my friend who recommended this awesome product.

    Positive

    It is easy to use quite adaptable. It is easy to learn and the support team is friendly and they respond as soon as possible.

    Negative

    As per me, pricing is a bit high but worth of features.

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  • Reviewer Name: Rahul M.
    Position: Intern
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great MySQL server I am using

    Date: Nov 25 2020
    Summary

    Percona Server For MySQL is used all over the world. It's doing additional testing which gives the added level of stability that we need for massive volumes of processing. It has other multiple features that provide high performance.

    Positive

    Easy to use and install.
    It's open Source.
    It's easy migration path to Percona XtraDB cluster.
    It's quite secure.
    Cloud Features.

    Negative

    No cons, It works really well and performs great with security.

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