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Percona Server for MySQL

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

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What is Percona Server for MySQL?

Percona is committed to producing open source software for Percona Server, MySQL®, MariaDB®, and MySQL DBaaS users. Percona solutions are also commonly adopted by OpenStack users who require high performance and high availability for optimal cloud operations. Percona software for MySQL includes an open source MySQL alternative and Percona-built open source management, backup, and observability tools.

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Awards & Recognition

Percona Server for MySQL won the following awards in the Transaction Data Store category

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Latest Award, 2026

2 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2025

Percona Server for MySQL Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Percona Server for MySQL?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Trustworthy
Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Data Monitoring and Administration

Analytics and Reporting

Data Replication

Distributed Processing

Operations Management

Data Backup

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Data Protection and Security

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Data Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Percona Server for MySQL Reviews

Siddhant R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

Easy to install and use

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Percona Server for MySQL from other similar products?

High availability

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Great security

What do you dislike most about this product?

Needs better documentation,UX can be improved

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Enterprise-level features in the fully open-source version,Easy to install and use

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Carol C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Efficient and Distinguished Database

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Percona Server for MySQL from other similar products?

Percona MySQL delivers a concrete Data virtualization capacity.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Percona MySQL has maintained data protection for safe analysis.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Percona MySQL determines the growth of business database.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Percona MySQL has managed to qualify the management of all business database.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Percona Server for MySQL

What is Percona Server for MySQL?

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Awards & Recognition

Percona Server for MySQL Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Percona Server for MySQL?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Monitoring and Administration Includes ability to continuously monitored data quality rules, as well as generate alerts to notify data stewards when they need to address an issue.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Replication Support for a real-time copy of the database in more than one system to facilitate access to the copy of data from multiple systems without any inconsistencies.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Operations Management Includes cost control, production management, and performance management.

Data Backup Includes the creation of duplicate instances to recover from an unplanned data loss. Also, support for high volumes of data processing and data compression.

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support Includes OLTP and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Most OLTP systems support some level of OLAP but very few OLAP systems support OLTP.

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment Supports one or many deployment models - On-prem, cloud or hybrid hosting of the database system.

Data Protection and Security Includes data encryption, data audit, and data compliance.

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing Also referred to as OLTP (Online Transaction processing). OLTP databases include strong support for CRUD operations and ACID compliance.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Percona Server for MySQL Reviews

Siddhant R.

Easy to install and use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Carol C.

Efficient and Distinguished Database

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Monitoring and Administration

Analytics and Reporting

Data Replication

Distributed Processing

Operations Management

Data Backup

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment

Data Protection and Security

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Data Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness