Percona

Short description: 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.^[1]

The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko.^[2]

Open source software

Percona maintains a GitHub repository for their open source software,^[3] which can also be downloaded from the Percona website.^[4]

Percona PMM architecture

MySQL database software:

Percona Server for MySQL^[5]
Percona XtraDB Cluster
Percona XtraBackup
Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster

MongoDB database software:

Percona Server for MongoDB
Percona Operator for MongoDB^[6]
Percona Backup for MongoDB

PostgreSQL database distribution:

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL^[7]

Database Management Tools

Percona Monitoring and Management^[8]
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),^[9] published by O’Reilly.

References

↑ "Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to $25 Million: Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev (Part 3)". December 18, 2019. https://www.sramanamitra.com/2019/12/18/bootstrapping-a-virtual-company-to-25-million-percona-ceo-peter-zaitsev-part-3/.
↑ "The Percona Team" (in en). https://www.percona.com/about-percona/team.
↑ "Percona". https://github.com/percona.
↑ "Percona Software" (in en). https://www.percona.com/software.
↑ "What You Need to Know About the MariaDB & Percona Forks of MySQL | Blog | AppDynamics" (in en-US). Application Performance Monitoring Blog | AppDynamics. 2016-01-26. https://blog.appdynamics.com/engineering/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-mariadb-percona-forks-of-mysql/.
↑ Percona Operator for MongoDB, Github, 2022-03-15, https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator, retrieved 2022-03-25
↑ Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator, Github, 2022-03-21, https://github.com/percona/percona-postgresql-operator, retrieved 2022-03-25
↑ "Percona Monitoring and Management". Percona. 13 September 2016. https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/13/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-is-now-available/.
↑ Baron Schwartz; Peter Zaitsev; Vadim Tkachenko (March 2012). High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1428-6. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022343.do.

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[1] "Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to $25 Million: Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev (Part 3)". December 18, 2019. https://www.sramanamitra.com/2019/12/18/bootstrapping-a-virtual-company-to-25-million-percona-ceo-peter-zaitsev-part-3/.

[2] "The Percona Team" (in en). https://www.percona.com/about-percona/team.

[3] "Percona". https://github.com/percona.

[4] "Percona Software" (in en). https://www.percona.com/software.

[5] "What You Need to Know About the MariaDB & Percona Forks of MySQL | Blog | AppDynamics" (in en-US). Application Performance Monitoring Blog | AppDynamics. 2016-01-26. https://blog.appdynamics.com/engineering/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-mariadb-percona-forks-of-mysql/.

[6] Percona Operator for MongoDB, Github, 2022-03-15, https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator, retrieved 2022-03-25

[7] Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator, Github, 2022-03-21, https://github.com/percona/percona-postgresql-operator, retrieved 2022-03-25

[8] "Percona Monitoring and Management". Percona. 13 September 2016. https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/13/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-is-now-available/.

[9] Baron Schwartz; Peter Zaitsev; Vadim Tkachenko (March 2012). High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1428-6. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022343.do.