Percona is an American company based in Durham, North Carolina and the developer of a number of open source software projects for

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, PostgreSQL,

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and RocksDB 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

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repository for their open source software, which can also be downloaded from the Percona website. Percona PMM architecture

MySQL database software: * Percona Server for MySQL * Percona

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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