Percona Explained

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] 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
• Percona Backup for MongoDB

PostgreSQL database distribution:

• Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
• Percona Operator for PostgreSQL

Database Management Tools

• Percona Monitoring and Management^[6]
• 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),^[7] published by O’Reilly.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to $25 Million: Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev (Part 3). December 18, 2019. Sramana Mitra.
2. Web site: The Percona Team. Percona. en. 2017-11-02.
3. Web site: Percona. GitHub. 2017-11-02.
4. Web site: Percona Software. Percona. en. 2017-11-02.
5. News: What You Need to Know About the MariaDB & Percona Forks of MySQL Blog AppDynamics. 2016-01-26. Application Performance Monitoring Blog AppDynamics. 2017-11-02. en-US.
6. Web site: Percona Monitoring and Management. 13 September 2016 . Percona.
7. Book: High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition. Baron Schwartz. Peter Zaitsev. Vadim Tkachenko. March 2012. O'Reilly Media. 978-1-4493-1428-6.