Percona

Open-source database software and services company providing enterprise-grade distributions and tooling for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Valkey. Offers drop-in compatible alternatives to proprietary databases with added performance features, backup solutions, and monitoring, while keeping deployments fully open source with no vendor lock-in or licensing fees.

Percona is widely adopted by organizations running high-traffic systems and data-intensive workloads. Trusted for expert support, migration assistance away from proprietary databases, and proactive performance tuning. Differentiates by combining production-ready distributions, hot backup tools, and a unified monitoring platform across multiple database engines under one vendor.

Key capabilities:

• Percona Server for MySQL and Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL with enhanced performance and enterprise features
• Percona XtraBackup for hot, non-blocking backups of MySQL and MariaDB
• Percona Monitoring and Management, open-source observability for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
• Percona Toolkit with advanced CLI tools for schema changes, replication, and maintenance
• Support, managed services, training, and consulting for all supported databases

Teams use Percona to run MySQL and MongoDB at scale, migrate from Oracle or proprietary offerings, and reduce total cost of ownership while preserving full control. DevOps and platform engineers rely on PMM for database metrics and dashboards, XtraBackup for consistent backups without downtime, and Percona Toolkit for complex operations like online schema changes and replication lag analysis.