Percona

Percona is an American company based in Durham, North Carolina and the developer of a number of open source software projects for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and RocksDB users. The company’s revenue of around $25 million a year is derived from support, consultancy and managed services of database systems.^[1]

The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko.^[2]

Open source software

Percona maintains a GitHub repository for their open source software,^[3] which can also be downloaded from the Percona website.^[4]

Percona PMM architecture

MySQL database software:

• Percona Server for MySQL^[5]
• Percona XtraDB Cluster
• Percona XtraBackup
• Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster

MongoDB database software:

• Percona Server for MongoDB
• Percona Operator for MongoDB^[6]
• Percona Backup for MongoDB

PostgreSQL database distribution:

• Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
• Percona Operator for PostgreSQL^[7]

Database Management Tools

• Percona Monitoring and Management^[8]
• Percona Toolkit

Other information

The company’s founders, Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko co-authored with Baron Schwartz the book High Performance MySQL (3rd edition),^[9] published by O’Reilly.