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

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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:

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

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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

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  1. ^ "Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to $25 Million: Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev (Part 3)". Sramana Mitra. December 18, 2019.
  2. ^ "The Percona Team". Percona. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  3. ^ "Percona". GitHub. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  4. ^ "Percona Software". Percona. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  5. ^ "What You Need to Know About the MariaDB & Percona Forks of MySQL | Blog | AppDynamics". Application Performance Monitoring Blog | AppDynamics. 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  6. ^ Percona Operator for MongoDB, Github, 2022-03-15, retrieved 2022-03-25
  7. ^ Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator, Github, 2022-03-21, retrieved 2022-03-25
  8. ^ "Percona Monitoring and Management". Percona. 13 September 2016.
  9. ^ Baron Schwartz; Peter Zaitsev; Vadim Tkachenko (March 2012). High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-1428-6.
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