Percona is an American company based in
Durham, North Carolina and the developer of a number of open source software projects for
MySQL
MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database ...
,
MariaDB
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ori ...
,
PostgreSQL,
MongoDB
MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Ser ...
and
RocksDB
RocksDB is a high performance embedded database for Key-value database, key-value data. It is a fork of Google's LevelDB optimized to exploit many multi-core processor, CPU cores, and make efficient use of fast storage, such as solid-state drives ...
users. The company’s revenue of around $25 million a year is derived from support, consultancy and managed services of database systems.
The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko.
Open source software
Percona maintains a
GitHub
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repository for their open source software, which can also be downloaded from the Percona website.
![Percona PMM architecture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Percona_PMM_architecture.svg)
MySQL database software:
*
Percona Server for MySQL
* Percona
XtraDB
Percona XtraDB is a storage engine for the MariaDB and Percona Server databases, and is intended as a drop-in replacement to InnoDB, which is the default engine in MySQL
MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDB ...
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
* 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),''
published by O’Reilly.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.percona.com
MySQL
Free software companies