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Percona

Database software company

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

01Open source software

Percona maintains a GitHub repository for their open source software, which can also be downloaded from the Percona website.

MySQL database software:

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
Percona PMM architecture
Percona PMM architecture

02Other 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.

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