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Open-source database solution for MySQL

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Last updated: August 2025

Percona Server overview

What is Percona Server?

Percona Server for MySQL open-source database solution that helps businesses streamline performance, manage storage, ensure data protection and improve transaction security to reduce downtime and data loss.

Some features of Percona Server for MySQL include encryption at rest, replication, hot backups, table partitioning, histograms, user statistics, binary logs, encryption, performance clusters, triggers, group replication, and point-in-time recovery. It includes the Percona Monitoring and Management Framework, which provides a unified interface for built-in tools within the platform.

All Percona Server for MySQL offers enterprise-grade hardware components, software upgrades, patches, and web-based monitoring and management.

Starting price

Free

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Customer Support

Pricing

Percona Server’s user interface

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Percona Server pros, cons and reviews insights

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What do users say about Percona Server?

In my opinion pricing can be the issue in percona server as it sounds lil bit expensive for me and will be getting charged if server is in use or not.

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Who uses Percona Server?

Based on 26 verified user reviews.

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Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Computer Software
Education Management
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Use cases

Database

Percona Server's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Percona Server users:

Backup and recovery
Data replication
Multiple programming languages supported

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Backup and recovery
Data dictionary management
Data replication
Data storage management
Multiple programming languages supported
Relational database management

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Percona Server pricing

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“Additionally the integrations for additional monitoring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has been extremely useful when attempting to evaluate overall health of my MySQL cluster.”
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Dawson G.

Network and Systems Administrator

“Percona has its own development team on MySQL, Percona Server is more flexible, secure and have very usefull community than MySQL.”
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Cihan T.

Solution Architect

Percona Server integrations (1)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 26 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Percona Server integrations and how users feel about them.

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

We like everything to stay on the same ecosystem to keep things consistent and easy to use.

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Full Stack Architect

Percona Server support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
24/7 (Live rep)

Training options

Webinars
Documentation

Percona Server FAQs

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